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Limit for 4300 is 70 degrees. This is from official AMD information. But with 54 degrees for continious 100% load (with program HeavyLoad), is a perfect preformance . The interesting thing is that if i touch the cooler in this time - i feel it much cool than 54 - may be like 48. I don`t know - just tell you what the program reports - and it`s 54.
This may be caused by 3 factors:
1 - the cooler is very efficient and dissipates heat quickly (this is what we want

)
2 - thermal paste is not very good at heat-conduction (in that case you can always replace it for a better one)
3 - the thermal material under the heatspreder of the CPU itself is of low quality (no easy fix for that, no matter whether it is soldered or TIM is used as in Haswell - BTW it's a known problem in Haswell CPU's).
Also - in the future you may want to try a tower cooler, like this one:
http://www.pctechreview.com.pl/wp-conte ... lera-9.jpg
Not all of them are expensive.
Well, my Intel 35W beast:
http://i.imgur.com/XfokTMu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pYZMVyV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bwGE1sF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wgD3FRC.jpg
Very quiet - surprisingly
vs this:
http://i.imgur.com/ZoSvoPs.jpg