cpu temperatures

[dan1987]

My e2140 system seems to run quite hot (32 degrees idle) at stock voltage with the stock heatsink. I have just applied some artic silver to it to see if that would help and it didnt make any difference, actually it made it 1 degree hotter!

Is this temperature ok for the set up or is it too hot? dont really want to start overclocking it if the temperatures are bad at stock.

my e6600 is 24 degrees at the same voltage although that isnt on stock cooling.

 

[dan1987]

sorry should have stated the temperatures under load, after 30mins of orthos level 10 it was at 68 degrees so I stopped it

 

[dan1987]

everest, coretemp and speedfan as they are the only ones that I can get working in vista x64. They all read the same within a few degrees.

 

[dan1987]

I tried to replicate the picture on the artic silver website the best I could so I dont think there is too much. I have started orthos again and it is steadly rising, after 7 mins its got to 54 degrees.

 

[dan1987]

After 20mins of orthos it seemed to have settled at 53 degrees which I suppose is ok, I was planning on seeing how far I could push the chip but maybe not with these temperatures

 

[dan1987]

54°c is fine just all depends what you're happy with, i'd quite easily be happy with a cpu that hit 70°c tbh... don't have to worry about throttling untill 85°c, so, in theory, you wont need to worry untill u hit 85°c....

Interesting point, I was under the impression that 60°c was a safe maximum. If I get time one weekend I might try it in my main system in my sig to see what I can get out of it.

 

[dan1987]

I decided to take off the cooler and resit it incase it wasnt on correctly and by the look of it I messed up when lowering the cooler onto the chip, I cant have done it perfectly flat as there was no artic silver at the top or the chip where it should have been I decided to not follow the artic silver instructuctions and follow the advide of someone in another thread on here and used cling film on my finger to spread it all out evenly over the chip. Temperaturs have dropped a fair bit now, load is at 45 degrees