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CPU Hitting 70-85% and 55 Celsius

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I'd post this in the General Hardware section, but the latest activity was an hour ago... and this place is always active and just as helpful.

When I play Battlefield 3 with my GTX 560 Ti (w/ 2500k i5), I have the game set to mostly high and some ultra. It runs at 40-60 FPS (perfectly fine to me).

I checked my CPU percentage, and it was at 70-85% sometimes spiking to 90+%. I've yet to see it at 100% though.

I was wondering if this is normal? Could I be putting too much stress on the computer at such high settings or would the FPS indicate that's not the case?

Should I worry about it and is that a dangerous temperature? I've seen it hit 60 C before...

It has 4 fans on the case.

EDIT: Ram is 8gb DDR3 1600
 
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GeekPlaya said:
I'd post this in the General Hardware section, but the latest activity was an hour ago... and this place is always active and just as helpful.

When I play Battlefield 3 with my GTX 560 Ti (w/ 2500k i5), I have the game set to mostly high and some ultra. It runs at 40-60 FPS (perfectly fine to me).

I checked my CPU percentage, and it was at 70-85% sometimes spiking to 90+%. I've yet to see it at 100% though.

I was wondering if this is normal? Could I be putting too much stress on the computer at such high settings or would the FPS indicate that's not the case?

Should I worry about it and is that a dangerous temperature? I've seen it hit 60 C before...

It has 4 fans on the case.

EDIT: Ram is 8gb DDR3 1600
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Perfectly normal.
 
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I just fired up Prime95. All 4 cores are maxed out, doing the "maximum heat" torture test. It's an i5 750 CPU, stock speed/voltage, with a giant Mugen2 heatsink, and Arctic Silver 5. I'm guessing 60-70CFM for the fan.

The side of my case is currently open, as I'm awaiting delivery of a new intake fan - the old one died recently.

CPU temp under that load: 68°C. Toasty. (Idle: 38°C.)
The heatsink's a bit dusty though.

I've got to shop around to see if there are any of those duster products that don't have the bittering agent added. The 3M Dust Remover I've got now has it; anytime I use even the smallest amount of it, I've got to give the area a wide berth to let it dissipate. If I happen to breathe in a trace of it, the bittering crap coats the inside of my throat, and I end up tasting it for the next 30 minutes.

And may Darwin have (no) mercy on the dipshit morons who try to get high off of this stuff and die. (I'd hate stupid people less if they could at least manage to keep the effects of their stupidity more confined.)
 
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My overclocked, overvolted i7 2600K (4.8GHz, large air cooler) has been seen to hit 70ºC -during stress testing, it routinely climbed toward 80ºC (if not above). I remember testing it in BF3 and other games, could never get it to approach what it could reach using bench apps, and I don't think I've seen it cross 70ºC if my room isn't stifling hot.

These chips can tolerate those temps just fine, don't sweat it.
It's when you approach regular 70s and 80s, for a large amount of time, that you get any issues. For these chips, that "issue" tends to basically be a shortened life (a few years as opposed to, uh.. much longer... ?). If you don't plan on keeping the same CPU for more than 5 years, I'd wager these chips hitting 80ºC for gaming a few hours here and there, isn't going to cause untold stress and worry.

Granted, I could be regurgitating some nonsense here, so don't entirely take my word for it. I culled such information from many posters at overclock.net, and I've stressed various Intel chips over the years to such "extremes" with no issue.

FWIW, I believe the "safety shutdown" point on Sandy Bridge CPUs tends to be in the low 90s - and if it hits that and shuts down, permanent damage is almost guaranteed to be avoided. Sometimes shit happens - a cooler attached wrong might allow the CPU to hit a damaging temperature before the CPU can react in a timely fashion.
 
yea stuff auto throttles now if you hit bad temps, no worries.

high cpu usage is what you kinda want...if a game is only using a small amount of cpu then its probably not doing much or its bottlenecked at your gpu or whatever...or poorly threaded.
 
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