i5 2500k temperatures

[balanceballs]

My board seems to have automatically overclocked my chip to around 4.3ghz, which is fine. However it runs at around 70c when under load (just been playing BFBC2 for a couple of hours, max temp was 71c. Readings from 'realtemp'). I also don't know how to check exactly how far it's been overclocked. CPU-Z tells me it's running at 1648mhz??

Is this ok? I don't want to fry my chip.

I currently just have the stock cooler but may upgrade to one of those corsair watercooling ones soon.

By the way I am completely new to all of this overclocking malarky.

 

[spankingtexan]

71c isn't bad but not great either, i'd get rid of that stock cooler as soon as possible, ideal temps for idle 28c - 35c and for full load 54c - 65c would be more acceptable.

Sandy bridge down steps when not loaded so 1600mhz reading is normal this'll increase as soon as you put a load on it.