i7 7700k Temperatures- Are these safe?

NieHadel

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Hi, After testing my build for a couple of days, I am a little worried about the temperatures I got on my system. The build is:
CPU: Intel 7th Gen Intel Core Desktop Procesador i7 - 7700 K
MOBO: ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti Gigabyte Xtreme Edition 11G
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-3200
Storage 1: 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
Storage 2: Seagate 2TB Firecuda SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5"
CPU Cooler : Noctua NH-U14S
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 Mid Tower Computer Case, Gunmetal with Black Trim
OS Microsoft: Windows 10 Home

This is how much thermal compound was put when mounting the processor:
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This is how the build looks inside the case:
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For reference, the room temperature is around 33-38 Celsius (91- 100 F)
When browsing facebook, writing this post and downloading games on steam, the temperatures looks like this:
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And when playing FFXIV, the temperatures look like this:
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Should I be worried about this?

What I did is to disable the turbo on the BIOS to run the CPU at 4200 Mhz, but it only helped to lower the temperature for about 2-4 Celsius.

Are these temperatures normal🙁, or what could you guys suggest to try to make it a little bit better (I do not want to ruin the PC because overheating/high temperatures :??: )
 
WIth 30C ambients, I don't see anything alarming about your temps, and would not expect that sink to match the twin tower Noctua...

Re-enable turbo, and let it run, play the games, enjoy your life...;if average temps go into the upper 80's, then come back here when there is something to actually fret over :)
 


Thanks everyone for your answer, so as long as i sit below 80s Celsius, everything should be fine?

In this case, which should be the temperature I should be watching for? Core max, CPU package? individual core temperature?
I reeenabled turbo mode and even after just 15 min this is what i get:
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Thanks traditore,
So far, the case has one intake fan at front, 1 exhaust fan at the back, and one exhaust fan at the top. Would extra exhaust/intake fan would help? Which one would be more helpful, an intake or an exhaust one?
 
That's about as good as you going to get with that cpu cooler and those temps do appear high, but prime 95 is using instruction sets to totally crush the cpu that no game could ever reproduce. That cpu is a heat monster, but your not going to be placing your cpu under 100% load for an extended period of time and games aren't going to place that kind of load on your cpu so you shouldn't have any thermal issues resulting in throttling. Are those temps with an overclock?
 


No, running at stock 4.5 Ghz, no overclock.
 


Thanks SgtScream, will keep it mind for when I need to OC! thanks!
 


Get 1 more intake fan. It's better to creater positive air pressure inside. Amount of air coming in = amount of air coming out.
 


No Air Conditioning?

91 - 100 F room temps....

Any CPU with ANY cooler is going to run warm.

You aren't going to overclock at all if you have to bump the voltage you will be in the high 90's or more.

The room temps need to come down a lot, all you would be doing is blowing around hot air and blowing hot air into the case.

Even with water cooling it won't matter....
 
If you're running stock settings you can probably easily set the VCore down a bit.... try 1.25 and that will shave off a few degrees.
Auto voltages on motherboards are *bleep* :)