A temperature querie

will420

will420

will420

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Howdy,

Up until about 3 hours ago my idle temps were cruising around 40-45 (speedfan/realtemp). I started looking at upgrading the stock intel cooler to a better HS so i could progress on to overclocking.

I opened up the case to have a better look at the intel cooler, as i've never actually installed one, and just pushed one of the screws not thinking i'd done anything. I put the case back together and hit the power button. First thing i see is a screen saying there has been a hardware fault and windows cannot start normally (or something a long those lines) Anyway it booted up and i thought i'd check temps to see if anythings wrong, i loaded Core Temp and both cores were hanging around 92! I instantly turned it off and doubled checked BIOS temps to see if they were right. BIOS showed 91!.

After 2 hours of self teaching myself how to actually install the intel cooler i finally managed to get all 4 screws in simultaneously without doing any other damage. (Yes i know its quite bad it took that long to put 4 pins in.) Anyway i booted up and checked temps in BIOS. BIOS showed 29. Which to my relief was a lot cooler then i've seen it before.

I loaded up and checked multiple temperature readings:

Speedfan - 37/34
Real Temp - 37/34
Core Temp - 32/29

I also ran Prime95 because when i ran it before the incident it was reaching temps at 95+,which to my knowledge now is really high, but now under load it peaked at 62/65.

I guess what i'm trying to say is....Is it possible that re-installing the fan has allowed the temperatures to drop a fair bit as opposed to all programs showing faulty temperatures? Noting that the fan was installed properly the first time too.

Sorry to waffle on so much, but i am fairly new to this sort of stuff and wanted to give as much info as possible.

Specs in sig.

Cheers.
 
Temps are quite good for a stock cooler.
Have a look at the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro if your after another cooler, this can bi installed without removing the motherboard.
 
Yeah those temps are fine, clearly reseating the HSF has done the trick. Sometimes they don't sit quite right with the pushpin system which is one reason most of the best after market coolers screw into a backplate mounted behind the motherboard (and also that they weight significantly more than the stock coolers!) The cooler has to make even contact with the CPU or else you can get wild fluctuations in temps across cores. Also the thermal paster makes quite a difference, a lot of people here (myself included) will advise suing either Arctic Silver 5 or MX-2 compound. There are specific guides as to how much to use on the Arctic Cooling website.
 
Have to say thats relieved me over a lot of worries i've been thinking about all day. Thank you all for the reasurance.

RJC said:
Temps are quite good for a stock cooler.
Have a look at the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro if your after another cooler, this can bi installed without removing the motherboard.
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I did initially intend on purchasing one, but its not currently available to order. I then saw the Tuniq Tower 120 which had some great reviews and also would look great with the blue LED effect which is basically the colour scheme for my PC :P Also ordered some Arctic Silver 5 aswell.
 
As your temps are nice and cool why not try a 'little' overclock while you wait for new cooler ? :cool:

Tri-cool(er) - Sorry couldn't resist
 
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