CPUs are designed to get warm

Skylake*

>>55534125
Hits 73c when stress tested at stock on a 212 Evo, that's too warm to really OC

>>55534137
So do not OC. And no, there is no genuine reason to upgrade, unless a 5-10% performance increase is worth $300+ to you.

>>55534113
The performance difference will hardly be worth the upgrade. I would probably only do it if you are going to get one of the pricy CPUs that have a soldered IHS. Part of why your CPU is getting so warm is that everything after (but not including) Sandy Bridge cheaps out with TIM, which is terrible for temps.

>>55534125
Anon is right, but probably not for the reasons that anon thought - these CPUs _are_ designed to get warm, but more in the "intentionally crippled" rather than "robust enough to take the heat" sense.

>>55534137
Oh no not 73C!
you have 17C of headroom.

>>55534255
Doesn't help that ivy bridge had mayonnaise as TIM but there's still some room.

Not like overclocking is ever worth it nowdays. Paying extra for cooling, paying extra for the 'k version' chip, then paying extra for a better motherboard and you spent like 25% extra to get 3-5% extra out. Smart.
Overclocking is legacy nowadays, from the days in which you could scribble on your CPU with a pencil and it would perform like 50% faster.

>>55534298
I guess that makes me an oldfag then :/ I paid like not even 10% more for my 2500k, the same price for my overclocking p67 mobo, and am running 24/7 at almost 50% OC'd.

Hopefully Zen makes Intel get off their ass and start being competetive with performance again.