Re: will water cooling help lower ambient room temps? good systems for a newbie?

"markm75" <markm75c@xxxxxxx> wrote...

Go to Intel to get the *operating* specs for your
CPU. The device is still supposed to work within that operating range
of temperatures (provided you haven't modified anything, like
overclocking). If the operating range for a CPU is up to 80C and
someone says they get flaky operation at 65C and why they are
desparately trying to lower temperatures then they've told you their CPU
is defective and they didn't bother to get it warranty replaced. For
the x7 9650, I think the max operating temperature is 70C. That is its
*operating* range for continuous use.


I did some more temperature checking, the ambient right next to my pc is 81F,
down where i sit its more like 77.. when i said 114F, this is just behind each
4870's exhaust, on the outside of the pc case at the bottom.. thats probably
the biggest contributer to the "heat"..

I'm still thinking the twin fan setup may help.. short of ducting the heat to
the fan.. and short of going water cooling with the radiator/resev. somewhere
else.. not even sure where else i could route it.

Intel (http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB8W) sez the
thermal spec for the Q9650 is 71.4C. If you're running 55C at idle, you could
well be approaching 70C at full load (if you ever use it at full load). If the
CPU is used lightly/intermittently, though, you may not hit 60C... While the
CPU has a thermal protection feature, it's not a good practice to rely on it,
especially if you know it is running relatively hot.


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