SpeedFan has a known issue with a 15°C offset in Core temperatures with certain motherboards, which means your hottest Core might be around 85°C. However, we can't be certain until you cross check your results with a know accurate monitoring utility. Also,
many monitoring utilities will mislabel or misreport thermal values for various sensors, which can be highly confusing and misleading.
Since the i7-4790K does not have a "CPU" thermal sensor, SpeedFan has most likely mislabeled another sensor such as VRM and is instead calling it CPU temperature.
The monitoring utilities "Core Temp" and "Hardware Info" are frequently updated and known to be quite accurate. For simplified monitoring use Core Temp, but advanced monitoring details use Hardware Info (not Hardware Monitor or Open Hardware Monitor). When running Hardware Info, select "Sensors Only".
• Core Temp - http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp
• Hardware Info -https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
If these utilities verify that your hottest Core is actually running near "Throttle" temperature at 100°C, then the most likely cause is a failing H60, which prompts additional questions such as:
How old is your H60?
Is the radiator and fan free of dust?
Did your temperature problem seemingly occur overnight or gradually?
What is your ambient (room) temperature?
CT 😎
Hey, thank you for the detailed response. Didn't get a chance to get back to this til now.
I checked the radiator on my CPU, it was covered in dust, after cleaning, I believe the temperatures dropped. I barely get any stuttering now in Overwatch (less hardware intensive game). However, I still get stuttering in games like PUBG/rocket league/mordhau/others. I don't think it is related to the video card, I think it is more related to the CPU or RAM. I recently upgraded to a RTX 2060, thinking my GTX 760 was the reason for the stuttering. However, none of the stuttering went away, but my frames did go up in all games. When I cleaned the h60 radiator, the stuttering got better. So I think I am on the right track, but how do I make it all stop?
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MBR7tg
That is my PC currently. Do you think the stuttering could be due to the fact that the RAM might exceed the CPU voltage a tiny bit?
Also, here is a screen cap of coretemp after a few games of PUBG:
View: https://imgur.com/a/T1W3K2O
EDIT: To clarify, PUBG was still running when I took this screencap.
(also why does it say my frequency is 4.4ghz? I thought it was supposed to be 4ghz processor?)
Not sure why I am getting such high temps still... It might be throttling down if it is hitting 97 degrees C? Is there another part of PC I forgot to clean? the radiator had a TON of dust. Like it was filled with dust. I used a vaccum and compressed air to clean. I forgot to clean that in the past (I clean the PC somewhat regularly with compressed air) because I had to take the H60 fan apart in order to get to that dust. I didn't see how bad it was during past cleanings.
Also my H60 is 3 years old.
My room temperature is normal, about 72 degrees Fahrenheit. (~22 celcius) Might go up a degree or two during summer months.