2500k - 31 degrees idle temp open case?

MumboJumbo · 3 Apr 2011 at 13:42

Hey, well I just put my pc together and my tempreatures with an open case and a thermalright frio are 31degrees on all cores. They are fluctuating though sometimes as low as 22 degrees for a second but always go back up to 31 or even 33.

I suspect this is too high no?

This is at stock speeds. I am just stress testing now to see how high it will climb.

iB CoMpL3XiTy · 3 Apr 2011 at 13:46

31C seems normal to me, my Core i7 960 @ Stock under water idles at about 32C

You'll be very hard pushed to get a CPU much lower than 30C unless the ambient temps are very low. Obviously you CPU won't go any colder than ambient air as thats what your using to cool it with.

What are your load temps like?

MumboJumbo · 3 Apr 2011 at 13:47

Well prim 95 is running at the moment and it seems that core 2 is significantly hotter. Averaging between 4-8 degrees hotter than the other cores.

Stress testing for about 5 min shows a max of 48 degrees on core 2 and that temperature doesn't seem to be moving. The other cores are 40-42.

Thats good. I thought I had read somewhere that people were getting idle temps pretty close to room temperature. This is quite a bit hotter than that. But should be fine.

OLDPHART · 3 Apr 2011 at 14:19

Your ambient room temperature has a lot to do with your CPU temperature, don't forget its starting to get warmer now so your PC temps will be getting higher to. Its your load temps you should check use P95 run it for a good hour to see what your CPU core temps will roughly level out at.

setter · 3 Apr 2011 at 14:36

^This tbh, im seeing a rise of 3-4c per core now that it's starting to warm up a bit, same on my gpu's.

MumboJumbo · 3 Apr 2011 at 16:40

That is true, though it is not very warm in my house tbh. I did have trouble with the heat sink as it literaly only just fit in. I think if I resat it I could knock off 4/5 degrees, especialy on core 2 but really I can't be bothered. I had it running for about half an hour before I turned it off to put in a few other components and it never went over 49 degrees on core 2 and the others were around 43. I shall Overclock it to 4.5ghz and see what that does to the temperatures.