My I7 3770k idle's around 40 oC with a Corsair H80 cooler. It's overclocked to 3.4Ghz (Was 3.5, but after about 25 hours for force restart so clocked it down a notch).

My GPU is the worst, GTX 580 that idles around 75 oC... my room is like an oven!

The stock speed for an i7-3770k (which is what I have) is 3.5GHz, so yours is underclocked. In which case I'm surprised at your idle temp; mine is running at 3.5, with a Corsair H60, and is 11C cooler than yours at idle.

That was meant to be a 4 sorry xD 4.4Ghz originally 4.5Ghz OC

Ah!. That I can certainly understand.

In reply to a post by johnjburness:

Currently, my Works i5 Laptop is running at approx 70C on both cores!

i thought Intel chips was suppose to handle temperatures better than that?
Saying that my mate was saying is I7 is running at round 50 and that is idling. goodness knows what it is when he start playing his games.

Yes, they can handle it, a fuss over nothing really.

Last weekend my Mum's PC motherboard fried (it was getting on a bit). Thought nothing about it and she wanted a laptop anyway so old PC is now in the loft.

Came to work on Monday and one of my colleagues asked if I had a spare PSU. He wanted to test his Dad's PC as that wouldn't start up. Turns out his mobo was fried as well - in fact to the extent that one of the capacitors on the board started to smoke.

This is pretty high coincidence and can only think that the 2 machines didn't like the hot weather and being older models both mobos fried pretty much on the same day.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Yes, they can handle it, a fuss over nothing really.

Umm.

My AMd is still nice and cool and been rendering a video for the last couple of hours.

You haven't defined "cool", you are just assuming that a CPU running at 30c is better than 50-60C. It could be well within the specification of the processor, and as we know, processors are incredibly reliable and even if subjected to temperatures outside the range, they should thermally shut down anyway.

The concern is other components like RAM, HDD, more probably.

Really, systems should not be overheating in UK weather if designed properly, even if run under full load and with a few years of dust in them. If they are then it has been built incorrectly or is defective. We have had no failures of computers at work due to this weather and some have 6-7 years worth of dust in them AND run Pentium 4.