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Is my Amd athlon x4 860K Overheating?

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Hi I built my new pc the other day and my cpu temp looks high in the bios it showed 49c.

Here's my PC specs from speccy.

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
AMD Athlon X4 860K with stock cooler
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 804MHz (Don't know why it's showing 801mhz when it should be 1600mhz)
Gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2
MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
Seagate ST3500312CS ATA Device


This is what its showing on idle with only speccy and amd overdrive running.
The amd overdrive keeps jumping from 65 to 70c

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Now here's the temps from 15 mins of playing on Might & Magic Duel of Champions which isn't really a high demanding game my old pc run it fine. Game System requirements

Not to sure if that's bad the frequency being red.

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Now the rams at 798mhz and 96c

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if i have this correct the thermal margin is not exactly the temp but how much you have spare,,,i cant really explain it very well but 65/70 is good as far as i know as you have a comfort zone of 65/70,,,,in other words your 70 degrees away from the margin,,,,also after gaming it looks good to me if i understand right as your still 35 away,,,as longs as it stays in double digits all is good i think,,,,i think the red just shows that your cpu is boosting/using the turbo for more mhz

can someone please correct me if im wrong :)
 
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