Ambient temps are normal, 70F or so. Still playing with this setup but so far I'm totally glad I upgraded. I came from a 2600K @ 4.9Ghz and this CPU smoked it at stock speeds (obv because of 2 more cores and 4 more threads). OC'ed it's just amazing. SPECapc for lightwave my best rendering score was 445 seconds, that's down to 352. Cinebench best was 9.68, now it's over 14. :up: