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I just bought a factory sealed corsair h100 refurbished water cooler from tiger direct I am having second thoughts about installing it I paid $60 for it should I return it and get a new corsair h60 for $20 more ? or is corsair refurbished liquid coolers reliable ?

I want to know what are the temps most people get on a i7 4770k before it is overclocked under 100% load with a stock cooler ? I want to know because I have a after market cooler and my temps are the lowest 62c and the highest 75c and a average of 72c under 100% load with prime 95 and monitored with real temp 3.70 . are my temps better then a stock cooler or worst ?

I just recently did my first build these are the components ( cpu ) i7 4770k ( motherboard ) asus z87 rog hero ( graphics cards ) x2 gtx 780 sc acx in sli ( cpu cooler ) thermaltake nic c5 ( ram ) crucial ballistix 1600 ddr3 16gb 4x4 ( ssd ) ocz vertex 450 512gb ( ssd 2 ) crucial m4 256gb ( power supply ) cooler master v1000 ( case ) thermaltake overseer rx-1 . I have been reading the reviews on my thermaltake nic c5 cpu cooler on tweaktown and vortez reviews . I want to know what load do they do there benchmarks on in tweaktown.com it just says stock load and overclocked load and on vortez reviews it says delta stock temps and delta overclock temps what benchmarks are they using and what load are they testing it on ?

I just did my first build all by my self this week the components are ( cpu ) i7 4770k ( motherboard ) asus z87 rog hero ( cpu cooler ) thermaltake nic c5 ( ram ) crucial ballistics 1600 ddr3 4x4 16gb ( graphics cards ) x2 evga gtx 780 sc acx in sli ( power supply ) cooler master v1000 ( ssd ) ocz vertex 450 512gb ( ssd 2 ) crucial m4 256gb . my cpu is not overclocked . on idle my temps are 29c to 34c and I also did a full load prime 95 torture test and monitored the temps with real temp 3.70 the real temp monitor said load 100% and the minimum temp 63 and max temp 75c . are these temps normal for a i7 4770k not overclocked ?