Anyone else think this is a crappy way to judge your oc? I run an i72600k at 1.420 vcore @ 4.8 and get 60C hours upon hours in BF3. So i boot up my pc, idle around 46C, then run prime 95 and immidetly my temps go to 75+. If I am getting 57-60 all day long while running bf3 and 75+ in prime 95 for 10 secs - is my oc ok?

Yea I get that I meen I have a acrtic 13 cooler (pretty much same look and build as hyper 212) and I dont wanna downclock my OC just cause my temps are too high in prime 95 and relativly low for my voltage in game.

If you want to see some high temps use LinX
http://www.xtremesystems....mple-Linpack-interface
 
That pushes your CPU to the limit.
 
Stress testing programs like Prime 95 are ment to Max out your CPU, Higher load = higher temps. When your playing a game like BF3 your CPU is normaly used around 25 - 50%. You will never see your temps get as high as a stress test will get them unless you are Video encoding or Rendering with a true 3d program, and i am not taking about a 3d game. ''
 
I would not worry unless it gets around 85 - 90 C. TJ max is at 100C. and at that temp your CPU will auto down clock itself to protect itself.

MJCRO

Make sure your using the newest version of P95 and it needs to be 64 bit to get the real use. All other ones I've found not to burn as hard as P95.

 
have you tried :LinX? I get 10+ higher temps with it than Prime95... well when it works. xD

I guess I run mine low but I have yet to have any problems. Only ran prime for an hour but Ive been playing games all day long for days just fine so Its not bugging me running at 1.245 @ 4.5GHz :)

Prime 95 is still the absolute best stability test for any PC especially the P67 Z68 and upcoming X79 platforms. Use max memory by setting it up manually, let run for a minimum of 10 hrs and there is no better stability test.