CPU temp 95C Is this harmful?

Question

I just went into my Bios and it says my CPU temp is 95 degrees C. I am assuming this is dangerous. What should I do? Should I check my Heatsink fan. My CPU usage is only at about 2% on standby on windows 8. My cpu is Intel i5 Ivy bridge 3570k. Please help

Answer 1

Use Core Temp aswell to check when its booted into windows. That is too high. Don't leave it in standby till you have checked the cpu fan. I would renew the thermal compound at the very least and change the fan to a better one.

Answer 2

Yes. room temperature is ~25 degrees. Water boils at 100. Most CPU's will run between 40-70 degrees depending on load. I think the max safe temp for an i5 is around 95C. Higher then that can cause permanent damage to the CPU.

Your heatsink is probably not properly seated on the CPU.





95 degrees fahrenheit is 35 degrees celcius. which would be a reasonable idle temp for an i5. Maybe just mixed up reading. If it were that hot it would probably shut down and your motherboard would be making all kinds of noise (built in heat alarms).

Answer 3

Yes, that is way too high. I have a 3770K and at "idle," it's 28-34°C. Running Prime95 (all cores/threads at 100% utilization) never takes it above 60°C. I'm surprised it's not shutting down. It's possible the BIOS has the temperature wrong, so get Core Temp, PC Meter, or something similar.



I run PC Meter with the CPU Usage desktop gadget (Windows 7) from http://addgadgets.com



My CPU heatsink/fan is a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065 )



Check that each of the four posts that fasten the heatsink to the motherboard are locked fully through the bottom of the motherboard. The design of the Intel standard heatsink just plain sucks. It's very easy to not get all four posts locked properly or to have one of them pop out/up.

Answer 4

The best way is to download Ccleaner here http://bitly.com/UrALrK



Or you can go on Windows operating system locate the command prompt and go there to do the following:

Create a Recovery file of system and date it today.



Then begin by;

delete the 'Temp' folders..they have hidden subfolders so you need to set the attributes in order to bypass this. For each subfolder delete all cookies and rubbish left behnd after install-uninstalled programs. Do a 'dir' command to check your progress. Make sure the 'Temp' file is empty.



goto c:\windows\prefetch and delete everything in there..no exceptions



goto c:\windows folder and delete all the '$' files that have been installed by updates. They can all be succesfully deleted and just take up disk space.



Locate the Internet Temporary Files..Check to see how high the saving level is..some have it set at 30 days..but that stores faaaar tooo much data..though it slows down the system overal. Keep this to a minimum..suggest 2 or 5 at most.



Delete all 'cookies' all those you don't need.



Locate the windows directory and go through the folders you know and those you don't need. Check this once a week at least. Some programs will install under XP as NT and older systems where there is no check of systems weight.



Check to see that system files have not changed since last booting. Things like .ini files or .bat are important items.





Check for 'Hidden Directories' all over the disk...do this at the command prompt:



dir *.* /ah wil show these hidden directories



Check the 'dir' command for all parameters

Answer 5

Cpu 95

Answer 6

The max temp should be 80 degrees and even that is too hot maybe you should by a good cooling sytem or underclock