Safe Computer Temperatures???

[PinkFloyd]

Is that heatsink actually red hot?? It shouldn't be red hot.... no way!

 

[BodiesOfLight]

Wow, my CPU is only 30 C/ 83 F and MB 20 C/68 F

Only cooling system I'm running is a heatsink/fan (CPU) and a 120mm fan in the back and I also blow out dust with compressed air as much as I can.

I was thinking about OCing my CPU, not much but some, should I be worried about temp when I do considering my temp now?

 

[BodiesOfLight]

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Originally Posted by Fickle-Friend This is she! A Hottie, literally!

That is really burning up. Not good.

 

[asmox]

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Originally Posted by BodiesOfLight I was thinking about OCing my CPU, not much but some, should I be worried about temp when I do considering my temp now?

What CPU? Different chips have different tolerances.. and even different batches of the same chip can respond differently.

My 3000+ Winchester ran ~30C stock, and continues to run at basically the same temp @ ~2500mhz (granted, with a XP90/Panaflo H1X).

 

[BodiesOfLight]

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Originally Posted by asmox What CPU? Different chips have different tolerances.. and even different batches of the same chip can respond differently. My 3000+ Winchester ran ~30C stock, and continues to run at basically the same temp @ ~2500mhz (granted, with a XP90/Panaflo H1X).

This is my CPU.

 

[Oink1]

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Originally Posted by PinkFloyd Is that heatsink actually red hot?? It shouldn't be red hot.... no way!

It's copper Mike!

 

[Fickle-Friend]

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Originally Posted by PinkFloyd Is that heatsink actually red hot?? It shouldn't be red hot.... no way!

Hi mate, erm, its copper. Copper is that colour I would say. I did touch it, its not red hot.

 

[asmox]

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Originally Posted by BodiesOfLight This is my CPU.

You should be able to get a respectable OC out of that. Just keep an eye on temps with Motherboard Monitor or some other utility, and remember to test for stability.

 

[MD1032]

Looks like a good cooler to me. I'm guessing it's not making good contact with the CPU. Take the cooler off and put some new thermal adhesive on it, like that Arctic Silver stuff.

 

[asmox]

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Originally Posted by MD1032 Looks like a good cooler to me. I'm guessing it's not making good contact with the CPU. Take the cooler off and put some new thermal adhesive on it, like that Arctic Silver stuff.

He said the temps shot up after he replaced the fan.. I doubt the heatsink is at fault. Which reminds me, Fickle-Friend.. what were your temps before you changed the fan?

As stated earlier, make sure the fan is blowing down onto the heatsink, as opposed to sucking air up and out.. you can do this by looking at the rotation/air flow arrows on the fan itself. Or even try another fan, if one is available.. the one you have on there looks odd.

 

[Fickle-Friend]

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Originally Posted by asmox He said the temps shot up after he replaced the fan.. I doubt the heatsink is at fault. Which reminds me, Fickle-Friend.. what were your temps before you changed the fan? As stated earlier, make sure the fan is blowing down onto the heatsink, as opposed to sucking air up and out.. you can do this by looking at the rotation/air flow arrows on the fan itself. Or even try another fan, if one is available.. the one you have on there looks odd.

Wait let me get this right, I should invert my fan so it blows air into the heatsink and not away from it?

Also before I changed the fan I observed the following:

Mamaboard temp = 37 deg C / 98.5 F
CPU temp = 61 deg C / 140 F

After changing fan I observed the following:

Mamaboard temp = 48 deg C / 118 F
CPU temp = 63 C / 145 F

 

[bangraman]

The Pundit has a fairly specialised fan arrangement. I have one which is actually acting as a bookend at the moment... I bought it as a hopefully silent PC and when it wasn't I gave up on it and on Intel. I didn't change the fan for unsuited alternatives and the thing runs pretty hot in any case. It's a cheap, serviceable barebone PC which works pretty well as long as you leave it alone. Not happy with it stock? Toss it.


Asus do sell a cheap, reasonably quiet minitower-style case Vintage AH1 which takes any Socket 939 Athlon64 processor. It's not a particularly powerful barebone by any stretch of the imagination but it is comparable to the Pundit... OK for general purpose (but probably not gaming). The stock Athlon 64 fans are one of the more silent you can get, so it's probably not necessary to fiddle with it.


Otherwise, for something that's easy to throw together, fairly powerful and silent, an Antec Sonata II case, Asus A8N-SLI Premium board*, your choice of Athlon 64 processor, Samsung Spinpoint HDD and a Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP fanless 6600GT card would be good places to start from.


*Go to an AMD-orientated forum first or somewhere like Anandtech, Hardforums, etc and get memory recommendations before you buy. The sticks I bought specifically for my PC's worked fine, but an attempt to reuse Corsair and some other memory failed. Some combinations won't power on and go into the BIOS unless you manually set memory parameters, which of course you won't be able to do until you power on and go into the BIOS!

 

[splaz]

Yeah, if you want a new system follow the above, tailored to yourself of course.

In general most prebuilt systems are woeful. Even the apparent "Xtreme Gaming" ones are quite pathetic compared to what you can build yourself.

I often wondered how they were so cheap, but after getting some supplier prices from a friend and looking up the cheapest possible components I found it would be easy to build the same sort of specs for the same price. I just theoritically threw together a cheap design of my own which cost a few hundred more for the same sort of specs. But then I remembered that mine actually had a good mobo, a power supply that won't kill the entire thing, a graphics card that isn't from the previous generation and so on.