My CPU is an Intel i7-4770K which was pretty high end three years ago.

The CPU fan is aftermarket, I forget which brand after three years. Corsair, perhaps; I’ve bought several of those. It is not a liquid cooled system, just a fan and heatsink above the CPU with a grain of rice worth of thermal paste. I also have three case fans and keep them all clean, as well as the two large case filters. Speedfan is a good utility to show that all the fans are working correctly.

This CPU actually is rated to run at 100 degrees Celsius for short periods. Yes, that surprised me.

No, I never overclock. It runs at 3.4 GHz.

As I say, things now are fine. It runs between 90 and 140 degrees F. depending on what I’m doing.

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