Temperatures

[petermcmillan_uk]

Sorry, I know this has probably been asked a million times...

I'm a little concerned about my temperatures. My temperatures peak at
:
47C - CPU
46C - Case
53C - CPU Die
Are these safe? I'm mostly concerned about the case temperature. The
temperatures went up a few degrees today when I added a new GFX card.
I'm also considering replacing my northbridge cooler with a Zalman
passive one, but I suspect that it may give some temperature problems.
At the moment I have three fans, the N/B one, a 80mm PSU one, and a
120mm (18db )CPU fan. Other than the n/b fan it's pretty quiet,
and I don't want to make it noisey.

I have some 80mm Zalmans and an 80mm Vantec Stealth, which I could add,
but then my 120mm fan wouldn't fit in. Should I worry about the
temperatures? In the summer I susepct that the CPU will get into the
mid 60's, and case in the 50's.

 

[Conor]

Sorry, I know this has probably been asked a million times...

It has. Are you incapable of looking for yourself?

I'm a little concerned about my temperatures. My temperatures peak at
:
47C - CPU
46C - Case
53C - CPU Die
Are these safe?

For the billionth time..YES.

 

[petermcmillan_uk]

It has. Are you incapable of looking for yourself?


For the billionth time..YES.

Thanks. My friends seem to think it's high, although one of them does
have his case temperature at 16C :-o (his room is very cold before you
ask). I can remember reading somewhere, I think it was the AMD
website, that case temps should be no more than 40C. I certainly don't
want to encourage the capacitors on my Abit board to die :-(

 

[fj]

Thanks. My friends seem to think it's high, although one of them does
have his case temperature at 16C :-o (his room is very cold before you
ask). I can remember reading somewhere, I think it was the AMD
website, that case temps should be no more than 40C. I certainly don't
want to encourage the capacitors on my Abit board to die :-(

Read the specs on the datasheet. AMD and Intel CPU's are spec'ed to 80-85C
normal operating temp.
While no one would like to see their cpu temp anywhere near these [only
because we all are engineers at heart and like lots of safety margin], it
boggles the mind when someone says that there's ANY effect of the difference
between 60C and 45C or 34C.
Generally, it's just another way of bragging that they've got the temps so
low. On the other hand, you might notice the sound coming out of a pc that
is supposed to have really low CPU temps. It's going to sound like a jet
taking off.

 

[bejay]

Sorry, I know this has probably been asked a million times...

I'm a little concerned about my temperatures. My temperatures peak at
:
47C - CPU
46C - Case
53C - CPU Die
Are these safe? I'm mostly concerned about the case temperature. The
temperatures went up a few degrees today when I added a new GFX card.
I'm also considering replacing my northbridge cooler with a Zalman
passive one, but I suspect that it may give some temperature problems.
At the moment I have three fans, the N/B one, a 80mm PSU one, and a
120mm (18db )CPU fan. Other than the n/b fan it's pretty quiet,
and I don't want to make it noisey.

I have some 80mm Zalmans and an 80mm Vantec Stealth, which I could add,
but then my 120mm fan wouldn't fit in. Should I worry about the
temperatures? In the summer I susepct that the CPU will get into the
mid 60's, and case in the 50's.

You haven't said what sort of room temperature you are running at.
Although the temps you give are not abnormal or likely to be damaging
as absolute temperatures in themselves it seems odd to me that given
the case ventilation you mention there is not a bigger differential
between the case/CPU. I would have expected maybe 10C or less above
room temp for a reasonably ventilated case.

bejay