Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
Based on Shanghai power consumption, typical problems of early new CPUs to have problems with temperature sensors, etc. But in the end, the idle temperature doesn't matter very much as compared to the load temperature.
At 4GHz+ i7 can have delta-T of 45-50C which usually kills the OC by overshooting the 95C limit and either crashing or throttling. 28C is promising assuming that delta-T + idle-T < Tmax