65C Safe?

[Net]

I have a i7 875k @ 3534.4MHz (i selected the "crazy 3.54" setting on my asus motherboard, lol. when i have time to fiddle with it i'll see how high i can go

multi: x22
bus: 160.7MHz
QPI Link: 2892.0MHZ

temps at idle are: core 0: 34C core1: 38C, core 2: 36C, core 3: 38C

temps running a chess engine benchmark hit a high of: core 0: 66C, core 1: 65C, core 2: 65C, core 3: 65C

I have my case fans set to low. So I'm hoping this it is safe to keep my case fans at low or is 65C too high.

Update:

just overclocked my gtx 460 sli to 815Mhz, 1630MHz shadders. Ran 3DMark Vantage and hit 68C for the CPU

 

[Ben90]

You are fine, my CPU idles around and above 60*C. When you start to fiddle with stuff make sure that you take Vcore off auto because motherboards sometimes like to feed a CPU dangerous voltages.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

It's fine. You should start worrying if it gets into the high 80s, otherwise you can keep going up.

And if you really want something to heat up your CPU, try CoreDamage or LinX.

 

[james1701]

I found that messing with the Asus auto clock features, it set my voltage way too high. I set my board to 1.38 volts and when I did it manually, I only needed 1.26 volts for the same speed.

 

[Net]

it put mine at a fixed 1.25

from cpu-z core voltage reads: 1.248 V

so I ran coredamage and it shot up to 75C. From what your saying I'm still okay?

 

[Ben90]

Yea thats decent.

I wouldn't really worry about temps much until you start putting 1.3v+

 

[betasub]

Stop sweating. Your CPU certainly isn't