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Greetings to everyone,

I recently built my first computer back in August 2014 of which I use for work and gaming, but nothing too extensive, so no overclocking here and just running on stock. Recently, I have been browsing multiple threads and forums trying to find any information on why my CPU temp idle around 38-40c and reaching high 73c when under loads. Some threads that I have read stated that CPU temp shouldn't be sustained too long at 70c or higher and this got me a little bit worried.

Normally, when I am playing Counterstrike Global Offensive, my CPU temperature would reach 70c with the highest I've seen was at 73c and when I am clocked for work my temperature would be sustained around 50ish degree celsius. My fans are all ran at 100% whenever I am on the computer.

As to my curiosity, I was wondering if this is "ok" for my CPU. The only thing that I have ran as suggested by some users were to run the Intel Processor Disgnostic Tool to see if my my CPU would passed a stress test. I received a "Passed" test result from the program, but still dont understand what it mean by "Temperature = 36 degree C below maximum". what is my maximum temperature?

PC Components in my build:

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97MX - Gaming 5
CPU: i5 - 4690k LGA1150
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 960 2G Twin Frozr V
OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 PRO
Ram: 2x (8 GB) G.Skill Ripjaws X Series DDR3 SDRAM 1600 (PC3 12800), 2x (4GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Harddrive: 2x 500GB Samsung Evo 850 SSDs
PSU: Corsair CX750M (Fan facing upwards toward GPU)

Fans:
Front 2x 120mm as intake
Back 1x 120mm as exhaust
Top: 1x 120mm as exhaust


Any suggestions or advice is appreciated.

Thank You!

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Agreed, if the pump is powered by the cpu fan header a lot of times it's set to a 'cool and quiet' profile designed to keep fans from running full out. For a pump though it should be run at full speed. Those are still somewhat warm ambient temps (not hot though), approaching 80f. In spite of being a water cooler, the h60 doesn't cool quite as well as some air coolers like the nh-d14 or phanteks tc14cs. If getting the pump to full speed doesn't make any real improvement, it may need the cpu block removed, everything cleaned with alcohol, new thermal paste applied and reseated. I've heard some people say it's possible not to get the cooling block mounted completely flat to the cpu and can affect heat transfer.
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The cooler fan is connected into a fan controller and is ran on full speed at all time. Also, the fan and radiator is connected to the front of my case as an intake (recommended by corsair for intake).
 
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You have a 3-wire cable coming from the waterblock (the piece mounted over the CPU). Where is this cable connected?
 
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Apologies for the wrong information earlier, but the the 3 wire from the waterblock is connected to the motherboard, so I will go head and go into the BIOS and set the CPU fan to full speed. I will update this post after doing so.
 
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Agreed, if the pump is powered by the cpu fan header a lot of times it's set to a 'cool and quiet' profile designed to keep fans from running full out. For a pump though it should be run at full speed. Those are still somewhat warm ambient temps (not hot though), approaching 80f. In spite of being a water cooler, the h60 doesn't cool quite as well as some air coolers like the nh-d14 or phanteks tc14cs. If getting the pump to full speed doesn't make any real improvement, it may need the cpu block removed, everything cleaned with alcohol, new thermal paste applied and reseated. I've heard some people say it's possible not to get the cooling block mounted completely flat to the cpu and can affect heat transfer.
 
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I was able to go into BIOS and set the CPU fan to Full Speed, tested the CPU temperature by play CSGO for about 20 minutes and the CPU temperature is fluctuating around 65-68C, but not reaching 70C anymore.
 
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I currently have Arctic Cooling MX - 4 Thermal Compound, will this paste be a lot better than the already pre-applied thermal compound that came with the Corsair H60?
 
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I have had this cooler installed since August 2015, but with the CPU fan in BIOS set at Auto before I had just changed it to Full Speed about an hour ago.
 
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The mx-4 will be fine, it may have some time needed to fully set (burn in like woody1999 mentioned) but there isn't much difference in thermal pastes aside from personal preference. 1-3c at most between around 20-30 of the most popular thermal pastes. It might be a little better than the stock compound that came with the cooler but not enough to make any major difference.
 
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So after I got off work today, I went ahead and took the cooler off to apply a new layer of thermal compound using Arctic Cooling MX - 4 . From what I saw when I took the cooler off was that, there wasn't much thermal compound on the CPU itself and maybe just 1/4 of the pre-applied thermal compound from the H60 that had gotten on the CPU.

So I went ahead and cleaned the CPU and cooler off with alcohol and all. Then applied one small line of the MX - 4 on the CPU and screwed the cooler back on and started up my computer, waited about 10 minutes before I ran the Intel Processor Dianostic Tool and received a better temperature below maximum than from before in the screenshot.

I then ran CSGO for about 1hr and my highest temperature reached was 52C,, which is about a 18C difference from before and when I am not doing anything but browsing the internet I am bouncing between 36-38C.

Thanks everyone for your words of advice.

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