Temp readings - what's safe?

Not knowing what you're specific build is makes it a bit hard to give you specific answers, but I can show you what my temps are and that they are within the threshold parameters for what I have.

Originally posted by EdH63 Not knowing what you're specific build is makes it a bit hard to give you specific answers, but I can show you what my temps are and that they are within the threshold parameters for what I have.

Mifunego, I am pretty intimately acquainted with the 750i and it's strengths and short comings. After you receive your system, if you have questions about your operating temperatures, feel free to post them along with your system specifications and I will be happy to look them over and answer any questions you have, if I am able.

Originally posted by Mifunego Originally posted by skyR All Intel's CPUs threshold is 100C. And it's impossible to come up with a table of the perfect temps because there are a billion possible setups, vcores, speeds, ambient temps, airflow, etc.   So then you're saying there's a formula.  Or formulae, whatever.  I guess I'm not being too clear, but I'll try again:  How does one determine optimum temp ranges for any one setup?     See, if I outline a particular set up, and someone somewhere (as Ed did above) determines this optimum range, then they did some calculations, right?  Clearly.  Ok, then, considering the "billions" of possible set ups, how can anyone ever determine any of these "perfect temps?"  I can see how figuring it might be complicated, but the concept itself really isn't.   Then, knowing how to calculate these ranges, or knowing what some unsafe temps are, any interested user can monitor the temps on various components in his/her computer and understand when performance or safety is being compromised due to excessive temperature.  At that point, said user can then make the appropriate adjustments or mods to reduce or eliminate the heat, and therefore, the compromises!  Dig?

I let DS figure out the best OC and tweaks for my system and I've learned through the boards here what my limits are on the set-up that I have.  Now, with that in mind, the rest of the equation of how much cooler can I get my rig to operate at is in my lap.

When I first got this rig core temps were idling around 45C to 47C and my GPU temp was idle at around 70C.  All of this because I have my rig set precariously under my built-in wall desk in my office where airflow is at a minimal.  I've played with my rig by takig it out from its location and putting it in the middle of the room and letting it run there just to see where the temps would fall, and they came down by a couple of degrees of course.

I opened the french doors to the courtyard off my office and let the cold winter air  fill the room and the temps plummeted to the ground nicely.  After all the moving around and opening doors to see how much flux in temps I'd get, I naturally had to put it back where I was going to be using it everyday and out of the way, back under the desk.  Here's what I've done...

I bought a small floor fan that tucks under my desk comfortably too circulate and push the air from underneath, and I removed the plastic window off my side panel to get more heat out quicker.  By doing this, I've stabilized my core temps around 38C to 43C, and I've dropped the GPU temp down around 63C to 65C.  Some considerable reductions that will no doubt help the longevity of the hardware to some degrees. 

Whatever the achieved marks are that will generate heat from the OCs and tweaks, you can still drive those temps down just by improving airflow around and within that box.  It's amazing how responsive the cores and GPU are to just a little improved airflow.

Anyway, this may not have helped bring anymore light to your situation and could have very well proven to be one noobs ramblings.