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65c should be fine for 24/7 usage.

75c or even 80c under Prime95 should be fine for office/gaming/media PC as normal programs/games wont stress it that much.

According to Intel, temps above 73c may reduce life time of the processor, but those CPUs are designed to last many years so crossing that temperature from time to time shouldn't cause problems, but don't expect to run i3 530 (or any other i3) at 80c 24/7 as CPU may simply die after a year or 2 of such usage (or a month if you're unlucky). The i3 CPUs are also set to automatically throttle at 105c and running at such temperature for a few minutes usually shouldn't kill a CPU but it is NOT 100% safe.

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