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 Post subject: What's a good temperate for my CPU to run at?
 Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:01 pm 
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Ok so atm I'm playing around with CPU temps and trying to keep my fans on Low speed and have just found my CPU fan speed toggle thing so have made it 1700 RPM (instead of 2500). But now I think the temp has probably gone up a bit and this could affect performance :/?

The temp is hovering around 33-38, idle, is that ok or should I up the fan speeds :(?

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core: is ur graphics card i believe... which card u have?

as for core 1 and 0 (the ones u want to look at) i'd have thought about 20 - 30... and anything up to 45 under load...

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Oh and after some googling It seems most people's idle at 40c and go to around 60 under load, so I guess 33ish is fine :D woot it's dead silent now too, cant hear it at all.

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that should b fine for ur graphics card (core) as they tend to run hot... mine runs that idle... and its surpose to be like it :shock: (goes to about 70 underload, just came off cod4 and its at 62...) u can change the tempreture warning on it to what ever temp u want... cant remember how to though...

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maddog-easytarget=GCHQ= wrote:
that should b fine for ur graphics card (core) as they tend to run hot... mine runs that idle... and its surpose to be like it :shock: (goes to about 70 underload, just came off cod4 and its at 62...) u can change the tempreture warning on it to what ever temp u want... cant remember how to though...


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Anything up to about 150C should be fine :thumbr:

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LeBeourfCurtaine wrote:
Anything up to about 150C should be fine :thumbr:


Maybe then I could get a decent BBQ?

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Diablo-X =GCHQ= wrote:
LeBeourfCurtaine wrote:
Anything up to about 150C should be fine :thumbr:


Maybe then I could get a decent BBQ?


aye lol

galzie (now known more as propain) got his up to 98 when playing cod4 :shock: then decided to turn the game off to let it call down... (that was with a new cooler he bought for it iirc...)

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use coretemp,TAT or even better,realtemp.then post your temps.

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use coretemp,TAT or even better,realtemp.then post your temps.

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maddog-easytarget=GCHQ= wrote:
core: is ur graphics card i believe... which card u have?

as for core 1 and 0 (the ones u want to look at) i'd have thought about 20 - 30... and anything up to 45 under load...



Peh!! Mine idles at about 45, never had any crap from it and its overclocked. (E6400 @3.2GHz) max I see when gaming is about 60C. :P

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simon=GCHQ= wrote:
maddog-easytarget=GCHQ= wrote:
core: is ur graphics card i believe... which card u have?

as for core 1 and 0 (the ones u want to look at) i'd have thought about 20 - 30... and anything up to 45 under load...



Peh!! Mine idles at about 45, never had any crap from it and its overclocked. (E6400 @3.2GHz) max I see when gaming is about 60C. :P


thats just u though... not everyone may be comfortable with temps that hot... and u can tell when it gets that hot on my pc bcuz u can feel the heat...

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The C2D chips were designed to take heat quite well... like up to 75C and then worry sort of temps. Not quite as durastic as the nVidia cores obviously, but as far as CPUs go thats pretty warm. :lol:

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simon=GCHQ= wrote:
The C2D chips were designed to take heat quite well... like up to 75C and then worry sort of temps. Not quite as durastic as the nVidia cores obviously, but as far as CPUs go thats pretty warm. :lol:


read that mine e6750 or something... can go up to 75'c and then it starts to damage it... but would rather it not get that hot tbh as my computer is kinda like a oven anyway...

another thing is ur computer is between 2 peices of wood as mines ontop of the desk... so temps would b different...

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maddog-easytarget=GCHQ= wrote:
simon=GCHQ= wrote:
The C2D chips were designed to take heat quite well... like up to 75C and then worry sort of temps. Not quite as durastic as the nVidia cores obviously, but as far as CPUs go thats pretty warm. :lol:


read that mine e6750 or something... can go up to 75'c and then it starts to damage it... but would rather it not get that hot tbh as my computer is kinda like a oven anyway...

another thing is ur computer is between 2 peices of wood as mines ontop of the desk... so temps would b different...



Actually I just get really sweaty. And those hairy things we men like to call balls (not sure if you'd know what I'm talking about here maddog :twisted:) get very sweaty and make the room really hot which then makes my PC smokin hot! :twisted: :twisted:

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