Re: CPU overheat Inter Core i7-4790K

@Zampoukos I have seriously nearly the same system, water-cooled with an Corsair I100. a 280X and basically the same CPU.

The question is, do you encounter any other heat issues with other games? As mentioned before, players reporting heavy CPU load on some systems but that should not over-heat your system. Is your CPU overclocked?

Cheers
Basti

Playing modded Minecraft made my CPU overheat but not as much as Star Wars Battlefront. No, my CPU is on default speed(4GHz).

Question, what CPU fan do u have, is it the default one you get with the cpu?

The cpu is around 1½ year old so if u have your computer for a longer amount of time maybe you need to clean out the dust from it. Worst case is the cpu fan completly on the cpu? Maybe its not 100% placed right so it wont cool completly. This sounds like a hardware problem like dusty cpu, or the cpu cooler isnt 100% on the cpu instead of a software problem that starwars battlefront is making. 

@Zampoukos I agree with @fatcamp that this kind of overheating issue is usually related to an issue with the hardware and rarely with a game. Even if a game or software is causing a high CPU load it should not happen that it is overheating your CPU even under the heaviest load.

Cheers
Basti

I wish that was the case. No, it's not the default one, I have installed a Cooler Master Hyper 612 V2. I bought and build this PC about 4 months ago, cleaned and re-installed the CPU fan 2 days ago.

I removed the thermal paste and added a different one. Seems better but still the CPU climbed up to 90 Celsius. In-game the CPU temp. was about 70-80 but when the game ended and I was earning XP temp went up to 90. I'm really confused. http://prntscr.com/8qt3ux

Fast question, u had no problem with overheating before 2 days ago?

Here is a quick guide to how to apply new thermal paste and stuff

First take off the cpu fan.

Take something like a coffee filter "usually u take a coffee filter beacuse its made so it doesnt leave any residue" and take like isopropyl alcohol "you need to have the one without any fatening in it, its suppost to be just pure isopropyl alcohol." and later you clean off the cpu and the cpu fan spreader.  

Now take your thermal paste and put a pea size of it on the cpu. 

and now you take your cpu cooler and put it on the cpu.

Im abit unsure exacly how your cpu cooler works to assemble beacuse i have never used it and abit lazy to check it up. But by looking at it fast , it seems like

you put 2 brackers around the cpu socket, while you do this. you start screwing in one of the screws a little bit, later you take the next screw diagonaly from it and screws it in abit to, now you take the screw at the side of this one you havent screwed and do the same thing and move now diagionaly to the one u havent screwed and screws it in abit more when the other ones, and now you move to your first screw and do this untill it is screwed all the way into it . " u do it this way to make sure the brackets wont get missaligned and the screws wont get to much force on them so they get bent or get stuck etc. "

now you put the cpu cooler ontop of the cpu and make sure the brackets on the side of it is connected with the cpu cooler, now you screw in the screw into the cpu socket bracket and make sure u do it tight and nice so you dont leave it abit loose etc.

And after this make sure you have connected the cpu fans into the fan controller and if the fans needs extra power connect the 4 pin into the cpu fan.

after this look how your cpu temperatures are.

Could you post a picture of what the insides of your PC look like? I trust your CoolerMaster fan to be excellent (I have had good experiences with them myself), but there are other factors like cable management, direction of airflow and dust buildup.