

If not for that i wouldn't let my cooler ever move 80C worth of heat energy. Midsize ATX with 120mm top/rear exhaust and two 140mm front intakes. H5 sized 140mm air cooler, maybe a little larger. I'm running what you could call a mid-range air setup. That's your CPU/VRM trying to tell you that you're working it too hard. Common sense says that temperatures where stability takes a dive are generally not good. It's knowing it's going there often that would. The occasional sustained load at 80C isn't enough to concern me.

Doesn't mean damage can't accumulate from just below that if sustained. Tjmax is where throttling/shutdown occurs to prevent immediate damage. Prolonged loads at 80C might just start to shave a little life off of something if given time. Just because that sustained heat builds up in pcbs and could affect nearby components. I would shoot for a max further down from tjmax if i was planning on going heavier more often. I'd have to say it depends on what you're trying to do though. Plenty of longevity headroom there without completely outpacing cooling during regular use. To me that's a reasonable equilibrium for a chip that's rated at 95C. Still leaves me some headroom on the off chance that I need it, which I do occasionally need to be able to tap into it and be able to do what I need to do without hitting my cooling ceiling. It'll pretty much flatten at 65C with a little more fan rpms for really GPU heavy stuff this way. If the gpu were to max at the same time i might need that headroom to keep it all under control. At that point my fans are only running at half speed. As the load kicks up temps rise to 65 but under that continued load they steadily drop and plateau at 50-55 with little spikes between. But if you look at the plots, those are small peaks. Right now I see peaks of 65 while gaming. I wouldn't be comfortable pushing that high all of the time. That way I know I have some margin on the real-world side. I always base the temperature limit on the heaviest possible burner tests. Fine for my uses but impossible to properly stress test. The fans max at 70C to hold that 80, so if i push any higher I'm looking at a runaway scenario. Im pushing up on that with my cooling setup now. Not to mention temps tend to rise more sharply past that. Tjmax may be 95C but i find stability actually drops stiffly past 80C anyway.

Linpacks, small ffts, anything AVX heavy. That's under the heaviest possible loads. And you'd pay £50-75 for a quality tower.įor Ryzen 2, I see 70-75C as ideal for an under air OC. I once found a new one for sale at £40 that's a steal. But I found that the P400S is really damn cheap in comparison. OP: That Phanteks case doesn't have the best airflow characteristics in terms of mid-tower cases. I use the mid-tower when the summer hits like a truck, just so I don't have to deal with the noise. I always dreamed of that, and I got pretty close to that idea. I really like the novelty of having a beastly gaming machine in a small form factor. It's my fault for putting a mid-range chip in what is essentially a HTPC case that has very low volume (surprisingly it is still the best in its class during thermal tests and I'm almost happy with it). Just a single fan taking out all of that hot air can help immensely when the CPU fan and PSU can't push the hot air through air pressure that they give out.

It helped drop temps in the ball park of 6-10c range. I did found a way to modify it slightly and incorporate a fan that will blow everything out.
#GOOD TEMP FOR CPU STRESS TEST 6700K FULL#
A decent gaming load will put the CPU at a constant 60-65c average even with a full fan setup, the hot air hangs around and isn't being pushed out because it is choked to that point. Now in my Silverstone box, it is a different story. But mid-range CPU air coolers can struggle if not helped by other case fans. I have an AIO that I can use, I don't get those temps with that. HTPC/Stock coolers don't really have the thermal capacity to run turbo speeds, soon as you hit those, the temps spike a lot. So long as the hot air is blown out ASAP, I would be fine with that while gaming. Click to expand.In a well ventilated case it could happen, but I haven't got the CPU up that far.
