New build I5 temperature test - advice please!

Loosecannon · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:47

I bought an I5, which is my biggest upgrade for some time. These are the temps I am getting:

Idle: 30c

Load: 57c (Prime 95 run for 15 mins on full)

This has not been overclocked yet - I just wanted to know if these temps are ok to start with. I have a Zalman quiet cooler fan.

Plec · 29 Oct 2009 at 17:50

Your temps look fine - although i would run Prime for an hour as the load temps may rise a tiny bit more - even if they did the temps would still be respectable.

sonteq · 29 Oct 2009 at 18:42

I find core damage raises the temps higher than running prime

Plec · 29 Oct 2009 at 19:18

sonteq said:
I find core damage raises the temps higher than running prime

Quite possibly, but for a temperature marker, before clocking, 'prime' should be a sufficient base benchmark to work from as no game/app will stress the CPU anywhere near as much/consistently as running prime for an hour.