i have been gaming for 2 hours at max settings on dragon age inquisition, this temp is the highest i have seen, i havn't overclocked the cpu. im so used to AMD cpus being at 40c when playing games, so is 66c gonna damage my chip?
Why only 45-50°C? It won't throttle until it gets close to 100°C.
Okay you're right haha. But temps still shouldn't be getting that high, considering that OP isn't even overclocking! A CPU cooler upgrade will give a lot more overclocking room - temperature wise.
WELL! good god! i have been wanting to do this for awhile now! (disable turbo mode and enable Power saving EPU) my previous voltage was at 1.246 volts! it is now at 1.014 Volts! and the max temps when running aida 64 extreme just went from 77c with an 81c max on core 3! to 55c!! and 59c on core 3! W T F!! im gonna do some benchmarks to see if i have lost any performance in games, because if not! intel need to stop shipping hot cpus out of the gate!
EDIT: I just ran valley and the shogun 2 benchmark, exact same results lol 109FPS in valley and 126 FPS in shogun 2 XD
Why only 45-50°C? It won't throttle until it gets close to 100°C.
Okay you're right haha. But temps still shouldn't be getting that high, considering that OP isn't even overclocking! A CPU cooler upgrade will give a lot more overclocking room - temperature wise.
I agree that a better cooler is required when overclocking, but the OP's system runs at more than 30°C below the throttle temperature. I've been running a Q6600 in a VMware server 24 x 7; it runs at over 60°C whenever it's busy enough (which is quite often) and it still runs fine after several years. People read about some AMD processors that can't run at 90°C or more and then assume that automatically applies to all processors.