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People worry too much about keeping Skylakes at 20°C all the time:
Intel Core i7-6700K & i5-6600K Skylake CPU Review | KitGuru - Part 9I am happy to admit my surprise by the capacity of Intel’s Skylake chips to handle significantly higher voltage levels than recent CPU generations. Both the i5-6600K and i7-6700K were happy to receive 1.40V and run at full – Prime95 and AIDA64 Stability Test – load while maintaining sub-90°C temperatures. And that was using a Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler – the Corsair H100i shaved another 5-10°C off the near-90°C 1.40V load temperatures. Just over 60°C for a fully-loaded i5-6600K running at 4.5GHz with 1.35V being fed speaks volumes for CPU temperature capacity. And it opens up headroom for solid overclocking gains in SFF systems without forcing the CPU into a throttling state.
My temps stay under 90°(without heat throttling) even with very extreme benchmarking:)