Operating temperature of Core i7 4770
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:27 pm
Hi everyone.
I recently got a Core i7 4770 Haswell CPU (thanks to a friend that gave it to me for cheap!) and it works very nicely.
Yesterday I was making some testing with HWMonitor running on my secondary monitor, and I noticed that this CPU is hotter than my previous i3 (the i3 was a 2120, Sandy Bridge), that was installed on the very same case.
Of course I know this is a much powerful procesor that the one I had, so it should not be that surprising if it runs a bit hotter, but still, I wanna be sure if the temperature readings I got on the i7 are healthy or at least normal.
On idle I get 45°c, 65°c~ on gaming, and up to 81°c on heavy use.
When browsing Facebook that is very heavy on scripting I get 57°c approximately, 65° to 68°c when playing Overload (as an example), and finally from 78° to 81°c when doing lots of heavy tasks. My 'heavy tasks' consisted of browsing Facebook with Overload & Cemu Wii U emulator (loading shaders) running at the same time, while converting an MP4 h264 video to MPEG-2 in the background, and jumping between tasks constantly, with CPU usage up to 90%.
As a side note, my ambient room temperature is about 22°c, but on very sunny summer days it can get up to 28°/29°c
EDIT: To check on a more stressing situation, even if useless and unpractical , I added to the previous test (Facebook, Cemu, Overload, and encoding to MPG2) Nero burning a disk, Winamp playing a song and another video encoder encoding from h264 to h264 mp4, all at the same time. In that 100% usage situation I got readings of up to 88°c overall, 90°c on one of the cores.
Of course this was a forced situation than on everyday normal use would not happen, but I ran it as both a CPU capacity and temperature test (and just for very few minutes).
EDIT2: I've been using 'normal' (not Silent nor Full Speed) profiles for both CPU and Case fan speed on the BIOS settings for those tests
I recently got a Core i7 4770 Haswell CPU (thanks to a friend that gave it to me for cheap!) and it works very nicely.
Yesterday I was making some testing with HWMonitor running on my secondary monitor, and I noticed that this CPU is hotter than my previous i3 (the i3 was a 2120, Sandy Bridge), that was installed on the very same case.
Of course I know this is a much powerful procesor that the one I had, so it should not be that surprising if it runs a bit hotter, but still, I wanna be sure if the temperature readings I got on the i7 are healthy or at least normal.
On idle I get 45°c, 65°c~ on gaming, and up to 81°c on heavy use.
When browsing Facebook that is very heavy on scripting I get 57°c approximately, 65° to 68°c when playing Overload (as an example), and finally from 78° to 81°c when doing lots of heavy tasks. My 'heavy tasks' consisted of browsing Facebook with Overload & Cemu Wii U emulator (loading shaders) running at the same time, while converting an MP4 h264 video to MPEG-2 in the background, and jumping between tasks constantly, with CPU usage up to 90%.
As a side note, my ambient room temperature is about 22°c, but on very sunny summer days it can get up to 28°/29°c
EDIT: To check on a more stressing situation, even if useless and unpractical , I added to the previous test (Facebook, Cemu, Overload, and encoding to MPG2) Nero burning a disk, Winamp playing a song and another video encoder encoding from h264 to h264 mp4, all at the same time. In that 100% usage situation I got readings of up to 88°c overall, 90°c on one of the cores.
Of course this was a forced situation than on everyday normal use would not happen, but I ran it as both a CPU capacity and temperature test (and just for very few minutes).
EDIT2: I've been using 'normal' (not Silent nor Full Speed) profiles for both CPU and Case fan speed on the BIOS settings for those tests