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Jakedapeguk

Jakedapeguk

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Hi guys

anyone know what temperature I should be aiming for,

currently running a g3220 and its sat at 32c eek.

I am guessing I need to invest in either a better case and cooling or decent cooling on the current.

it has 3 fans on it and a rajintek air cooler,

ideas guys?

I am getting intermittent shut downs, when playing games, that initially led me to think it may be a psu issue, but the rails look normal on that.

Your help is much appreciated .
 
Hi,

specs as below -

Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
team xtream frost version DDR3 2400 4 gb x 2
Intel Pentium G3258 with Rajintek air cooler (ps, plan was this was always meant to be temporary and a devils canyon would live in its place at some point).
PSU Corsair GX 750W
MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards
1x 1tb sata 7200 rm
1 x 128 SSD

Case is some no make midi, that has 2 side fans and one rear fans. Can attach photos if it will help,

cheers for the reply.
 
Start worrying when you hit 60c ~ at idle, but run a stress test programme and check ful load temps, this is more important.

Your cooler is more than adequate for this CPU.
 
Running a stress test on the cpu using prime95

I received the following output.
CPU peaked at 37c


[Wed Dec 09 09:01:32 2015]
Compare your results to other computers at http://www.mersenne.org/report_benchmarks
Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3258 @ 3.20GHz
CPU speed: 3537.23 MHz, 2 cores
CPU features: Prefetch, SSE, SSE2, SSE4
L1 cache size: 32 KB
L2 cache size: 256 KB, L3 cache size: 3 MB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 64 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 64-bit version 28.5, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 8.593 ms., avg: 10.452 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 11.128 ms., avg: 13.382 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 13.767 ms., avg: 15.484 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 16.639 ms., avg: 20.171 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 19.804 ms., avg: 21.794 ms.
Best time for 2560K FFT length: 25.241 ms., avg: 28.544 ms.
Best time for 3072K FFT length: 32.826 ms., avg: 35.371 ms.
Best time for 3584K FFT length: 38.601 ms., avg: 43.737 ms.
Best time for 4096K FFT length: 41.513 ms., avg: 48.414 ms.
Best time for 5120K FFT length: 50.579 ms., avg: 54.798 ms.
Best time for 6144K FFT length: 69.290 ms., avg: 73.176 ms.
Best time for 7168K FFT length: 83.578 ms., avg: 91.980 ms.
Best time for 8192K FFT length: 92.414 ms., avg: 99.935 ms.
Timing FFTs using 2 threads.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 4.570 ms., avg: 5.888 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 5.787 ms., avg: 6.371 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 7.120 ms., avg: 8.537 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 8.750 ms., avg: 11.757 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 9.666 ms., avg: 12.704 ms.
Best time for 2560K FFT length: 13.068 ms., avg: 14.657 ms.
Best time for 3072K FFT length: 15.321 ms., avg: 19.669 ms.
Best time for 3584K FFT length: 18.923 ms., avg: 22.136 ms.
Best time for 4096K FFT length: 21.381 ms., avg: 21.890 ms.
Best time for 5120K FFT length: 27.681 ms., avg: 32.133 ms.
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 640K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:09:08 2015]
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 720K passed!
Self-test 720K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:16:05 2015]
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 800K passed!
Self-test 800K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:37:59 2015]
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:43:04 2015]
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:48:41 2015]
Self-test 14K passed!
Self-test 14K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:54:21 2015]
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 09:59:38 2015]
Self-test 16K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:05:12 2015]
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:10:15 2015]
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:15:52 2015]
Self-test 14K passed!
Self-test 14K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:21:18 2015]
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:26:24 2015]
Self-test 16K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:31:51 2015]
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:36:58 2015]
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:42:18 2015]
Self-test 14K passed!
Self-test 14K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:47:22 2015]
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
[Wed Dec 09 10:52:51 2015]
Self-test 16K passed!
Self-test 16K passed!
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Puzzled with this one then,

I generally get reboots when playing games, but the volts look fine, even under stress.
I just ran a Burnin Test and again, was fine, with the CPU pretty much not surpassing 33C
 
Voltage on the memory is 1.512v
Temp on the gpu is 32c idle
Running a Burnin stress test, peaked at 61c with GPU load at 98% and fan speed at 41%
 
There is something not right here. If you are running a stress test and the cpu is only hitting the 30's then unless you are outside in the arctic circle there is no way your temps are that low.

Do you have the latest bios for your motherboard?

Are you sure about your psu as Corsair does not have a GX series.
 
Jakedapeguk said:
Hi guys

anyone know what temperature I should be aiming for,

currently running a g3220 and its sat at 32c eek.
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32c (I'm guessing for idle) is well... completely 100% beyond fine...


pastymuncher said:
There is something not right here. If you are running a stress test and the cpu is only hitting the 30's then unless you are outside in the arctic circle there is no way your temps are that low.
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Actually... yes this so much, if it's literally not going over mid 30s at most under full load.. then you have some problem...
 
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Yeah your right about the PSU, its my bad, its a coolermaster on the bios front, I am going to check if there is an update, (which I suspect there will be), its currently on rev 8

Once it is updated I will do another stress test and monitor the temps.
 
Hi

I have been using the gigabyte app centre software and Techpower GPU for the gpu.

I have ran the tests again, using realtemp instead, this is reporting it maxing out at 42c, which from what I have read, is probably the right kind of temps i should be expecting with my current build.

I have increased the volts, to my memory and will get my son to properly test it tonight with gaming :D
 
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