And summer strikes!

krooton

krooton

krooton

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Just 2 weeks ago my average room temp was 18ºC and my machine idled at around 23-25ºC, now with all the nice weather that summer brings, my room temp is around 24-26ºC, and my pc is idling 34-38ºC :(

I've already dropped my clock to 2.8Ghz and Vcore down to 1.4, but it's only going to get warmer, and my poor little pc won't be able to cope.

Anyone else feeling the heat already?
 
To be honest, I spend say a week or so when I do a new PC build overclocking and testing, and then I just leave it a stable setting for X months, be it through summer or winter. Don't really worry about it. Why do you worry if it performs the same? Some people become obsessed with idle/load temps. If it works, chill.
 
i was wondering how long it would be before someone started a "oh noes it's summer" thread. :p

those idle temps are nothing to worry about - i'd keep my usual voltage/overclock - unless load temps are out of control. that's all you need to worry about. :)
 
pendulum666 said:
To be honest, I spend say a week or so when I do a new PC build overclocking and testing, and then I just leave it a stable setting for X months, be it through summer or winter. Don't really worry about it. Why do you worry if it performs the same? Some people become obsessed with idle/load temps. If it works, chill.
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Mainly because I had my machine pushed within 5 degrees of the acceptable max on load, and if your idle/ambient temps jump 10 degrees, then you are going to get issues.

I'd rather prevent a crash than adjust after one.
 
marc2003 said:
i was wondering how long it would be before someone started a "oh noes it's summer" thread. :p

those idle temps are nothing to worry about - i'd keep my usual voltage/overclock - unless load temps are out of control. that's all you need to worry about. :)
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I'm thinking of doing a fan switcheroo actually.

Noctua is rear exhaust, on my XP-120 (sig is out of date), and cooling my GT.

I also have a Globe fan as intake on a fan controller.

The Globe pushes much more air at 12v, so I might stick it on my XP120, and put the Noctua as intake, then ramp up if doing intensive stuff :)
 
Why reduce your overclock unless it's causing instability?

Just leave it be, and forget about the temperatures. People worry way too much - I've not heard of a chip dying from overheating for years and years...:p
 
these chips won't throttle back until they reach 85c... you've got plenty of room to play with. i had mine upto 75 when priming because i only have the stock cooler. i'm not touching my overclock unless i have to. my real world load temps are certainly much lower than what prime does to it anyway. :)
 
marc2003 said:
these chips won't throttle back until they reach 85c... you've got plenty of room to play with. i had mine upto 75 when priming because i only have the stock cooler. i'm not touching my overclock unless i have to. my real world load temps are certainly much lower than what prime does to it anyway. :)
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I thought that TJunction was 10ºC more than the throttle threshold?

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/143/5
 
62 isn't anything to get worried about!

My HSF is a bit stopped up with some cathair and recently during CoD4 matches core temps have climbed up to 68c, doesn't bug me in the least. I'm just a bit too lazy to clean out the heatsink.
 
naudiz said:
Looking at that I shouldn't be exceeding 61.5, and I can hit 70 on full load....

Naud
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That's max tCase temp though, your core temp can be quite a bit hotter. My CPU temp is 27c at the moment and 36c on core 1. Besides, when have you heard of a 65nm C2D chip dying because of heat.
 
krooton said:
I thought that TJunction was 10ºC more than the throttle threshold?

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/143/5
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according to coretemp, the tj max of my 2180 is 85c. and that's when it throttles. how do i know? because i fudged the install of the heatsink and had load temps in the 80s - but it didn't drop the multi/voltage until it reached 85c. :D

so assuming you're not using silly volts, i think running at 80c all day would be fine. :p
 
krooton said:
Just 2 weeks ago my average room temp was 18ºC and my machine idled at around 23-25ºC, now with all the nice weather that summer brings, my room temp is around 24-26ºC, and my pc is idling 34-38ºC :(
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same for me, my temps have increased by about 15C over the last couple of weeks :mad: lol

not high enough to make be clock her back though :D
 
To hell with the CPU, it's got a whacking great fan bolted to it.
I'm more worried about having the equivalent of a 4-500W electric fire blasting hot air at me when the ambient's already annoyingly hot.
 
krooton said:
Just 2 weeks ago my average room temp was 18ºC and my machine idled at around 23-25ºC, now with all the nice weather that summer brings, my room temp is around 24-26ºC, and my pc is idling 34-38ºC :(
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you dont have enough airflow through the case and its building up, my cores on idle run 2-3c above ambient.. take the side of the case and see if that makes a difference to your core temps.. if it does u need more fans :P cant never have enough fans :P
 
Haven't had coretemp running in a while, seems its gone up roughly 3/4oc since I last checked a month ago. No biggy.. :)
 
Pneumonic said:
you dont have enough airflow through the case and its building up, my cores on idle run 2-3c above ambient.. take the side of the case and see if that makes a difference to your core temps.. if it does u need more fans :P cant never have enough fans :P
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My airflow is fine, 1 in, 1 out, cables out of the way, PSU separate.

I'm guessing because the XP-120 blows down, getting rid of hot cpu air isn't as good as it was with my Katana 2 :(
 
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