Re: PC Cooling Issue

In article <Yy59k.19894$co7.8626@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ed Medlin" <ed@ edmedlin.com> wrote:
You must have a VERY cold room...........:-)


Ed


While it is in a basement, it hovers around 75f in the room .

That would only be a gain of 12-13c over room temps. I currently have a
Q6600 OC'd to 3.2Ghz and the temps are the same as at the stock 2.4Ghz.
About 30c idle and maxes out at 45-50c with a very good Swiftech liquid
cooled system in a P180 case. My room temps are a bit cooler, around 70f or
so. Just the heat of normal components in a box will raise the case temps in
an extremely well ventilated case 6-8degs C and workload on the CPU, even at
idle would bring that up to 30c or more. Your temps seem more indicative of
MB or even ambient case temps than CPU temps, especially with the hotter
running P4s. Over at alt.comp.hardware.overclocking we have had a lot of
discussions over the years on temps and getting them down. 35c as a maximum
temp under stress is just not going to happen with an air-cooled P4 unless
you are pumping AC into the case.......:-). I have found it hard to get a
good temperature monitoring program that correctly reads CPU temps,
especially the C2Ds and Quads. CoreTemp is the closest, but I find an
8-10deg difference between it and the bios readings on my Stiker Extreme
NV680i SLI board. I run two EVGA Superclocked 8800GTXs too, so good
ventilation and cooling was a top consideration from the start of this
build.


Ed


I guess that i suppose UT2004 isnt really stressing it much. I have a C2D 6600
stock speed, and i did some more tests and yes it does go up around 40c or so
but not much higher than that. It IS the cpu temp i am reading via the coretemp
program located here http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp .

Anyways, keeping the case free of dust, and good airflow is the key. I have an
ANTEC 900 case and so airflow is excellent.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021

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