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Rampge III extreme/i7-950 How hot is too hot?

GMHVF6
Level 7
Quick question on temps for the 950. Im reading around 69-70 degrees is pretty much the peak of what intel suggest for this chip. mine pushes up to around 71-72 mark currently overclocked to 3.7Ghz (23 x 161) This is when under load/gaming. The cores themselves hitting 99-100 degrees. On a scale of 1 to firepit. How un/healthy is this going to be. Only recently upped from a 3.3Ghz clock and am noticing the decent heat increase.
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Menthol
Level 14
100 degrees is to high for daily use, 65 to 75 under stress and 50 during gaming would be better temps to shot for

So i reseated the heatsink with arctic silver 5 and ive changed location of a couple case fans. Now reading 47 degrees at idle. 63 degrees under load, Cores are peaking at 70-73 degrees. A bit more acceptable i hope. PC still runs reliably in game etc at these temps.

Menthol
Level 14
Very good, X58 is still a good system today