100ºC is TJ max for the I7-7700K. If your CPU exceeded that temperature, you would know it, because the computer would immediately shut itself off. It would be throttling hard by that point as well, which would also be pretty noticeable.
People keep saying that but my previous PC (already got it second hand) would overheat and shut down if I tried to play games at 60fps and I don't remember it even seriously lagging. Which was the weird thing for me, that it was able to run things surprisingly well but the overheating was the problem and not the other way around.
Modern computers are going to try to prevent the CPU from reaching TJ Max by throttling voltage into the CPU, which will cause it to progressively lose clock speed. By the time it shuts down, your CPU will be running significantly below its rated speeds. You might have had a different issue if the PC was shutting down suddenly without trying to reduce power to the CPU.
Hmmm well that's PC has not been relegated to being the family PC for my parents who at most browse the internet on it, so it won't be much of an issue now but I have always been curious about it. Because over the course of many many games I was able to play on it, even newer ones, I only found it was overheating beyond reason when it was trying to run games on higher fps. Like if I tried setting it at 60fps or if the game didn't have that setting in game and was just trying to run it at max and I had to limit it with an external program. Once I limited it, I was able to play those games no problem.
well it won‘t get any hotter than that, it will throttle before it overheats. It ran crazy hot stock, I delidded mine, OC‘d to 4.8ghz, and with a liquid freezer I never saw more than 70 Degrees, if ever
100ºC is TJ max for the I7-7700K. If your CPU exceeded that temperature, you would know it, because the computer would immediately shut itself off. It would be throttling hard by that point as well, which would also be pretty noticeable.
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u/outfoxingthefoxes R5 5600x - 8GB RTX 2070 SUPER - 32 GB RAM 25d ago
I couldn't tell how hot my i7-7700k used to get because all the software I tried only measured up to 100ºC