Temperature Sensors

rkr87

rkr87

rkr87

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Hi all,

With the heatwave in England at the minute I thought it might be an idea to actually keep note of the temperatures inside my PC - I downloaded Everest which allows me to put various temperatures for different things on my notification tray.

Though something doesn't make sense to me - my computer can be turned off for 2-3 days and none of the temperature sensors are the same value when I turn my pc on from cold. I'd expect all the sensors to drop to or atleast near room temperature after such a long period.

The following are examples of the temperature reading directly after starting up after been switched off for 18~ hours.

Mobo: 30C
CPU: 48C
Aux: 45C
GPU: 48C
HDD1: 19C
HDD2: 24C

The room temperature is around 20C - seems odd to me the sensors can read temperatures that high above room temperature after such a short period of my PC being on... is this normal?

Thank,
Ryan.
 
It's perfectly normal for temperatures to be above room level after being turned on. Your computer needs to load Windows and any other software you have running, which will generate heat on all components. Although, they do seem a little high (cpu+gpu). Do they go down much after the computer being left alone for about 10 minutes?
 
My computer takes all of 3-4 minutes to start-up - if that, just struck me as odd they could reach those temperatures that quickly.

They also start out at those temperatures if I wake my computer from sleep, which didn't seem right to me either?

Well I've been on the computer just browsing the web for abit and the temps are currently saying;

mobo: 34
cpu: 43
aux: 37
gpu: 51
hdd1: 24
hdd2: 29

Thanks.
 
Some parts of a computer can generate heat really quickly. For example, if you had no CPU cooler it would likely overheat in a minute so having a increase in temperature when resuming or booting is to be expected. Your temperatures do seem high though what CPU cooler are you using and have you dusted your computer out recently? :)

A GPU shouldn't really be 51C when browsing the internet with little load so dust could be a problem:(
 
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I'm just using the stock cooler on both the CPU and GPU, I moved everything into a new case a few weeks ago so had a good clean out then. :(
 
I didn't monitor them before haha :/ I only started checking them recently as walking into any room in my house felt like walking into an oven during the heatwave!
 
Haha, the heatwave could have added quite a bit onto the temperatures though so it could just be down to that:) The heat is not that bad where I live now but if you where in one of the hotspots I suspect it would put a bit of a unwanted increase for your parts :p.

Another suggestion for the increase in temperatures could be that the wires are restricting airflow to some parts of your computer making it hotter or the fans could be poor (if you are not using the same ones as before). Other than that I'm not sure what else could have increased the temperatures if all you changed was the case :(
 
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