CPU Temp Wrong?

[Pipa]

Please don't confuse Tcase with Tjmax, because if you are talking about limits then tjmax is the one to go for. Going over Tcase will void your warranty, but so will overclocking from what i remember. Probably similar to the speedlimit on winter tyres, you shouldn't go above 200km/h but they will still work if you do.

It just depends what you want to do with it and how you want to use it. If you leave it unclocked then certainly it shouldn't go above that temperature, but if you want to overclock it then you will easily surpass that temperature under heavy load. From what i remember by overclocking my i7 3770k 3 months ago i passed 70 rather quickly, although to be fair the ivy bridge will get much hotter. tcase was somwhere around 68 or so.

I have only overclocked cpus twice so far and have very little knowledge or experience, but claiming that the system will crash by going over 72 under a stress test is laughable.