Bob, I just found out that the limit I named isn't an official limit.


You might want to read this. Some of this technical stuff makes it hard for me to understand it correctly. The 80-85 degree Celcius is a widely adapted idea of a max safe-temperature, so it's not an official max temp.


Anyway, something to read: http://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2009/02/26/intel-core-i7-temperatures/


Quote Originally Posted by Bob Williams


Jan, Great info, Thanks---and I think your right about the heat dissipation problem. I am running the stock fan that came with the boxed processor, but no paste was used since it didn't come with the stock processor fan.


I will try and find the Everest software---It looks much better than the "included" utilities that I have"

Bob, even replacing the sticker paste with "real" paste will reduce your temperatures significantly. In my brothers case it was a minimum of 5 degrees difference, just by replacing the paste.


In theory the boxed cooler should be good enough, however I'm wondering what this will do to the life-time of your CPU in the long run.


As I said, I use the Scythe Mugen 2 cooler(which is about 38 Euro, so probably the same amount of dollars) and combine it with Arctic Silver Premium paste and it works wonders for me.


Everest is in my opinion one of the better programs to monitor these things.


Good luck!