how are my 2.8C temps?

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furiousfords89

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I have a p4 2.8c and a aero4 lite heatsink w/ arctic silver 5 and my temps are 30c idle and 38c load............are these temps considered to be really good?
 
Those are AWESOME temps, assuming the mobo is reporting right.
 
furiousfords89 said:
I have a p4 2.8c and a aero4 lite heatsink w/ arctic silver 5 and my temps are 30c idle and 38c load............are these temps considered to be really good?
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FYI, different mobo brands report RADICALLY different CPU speeds. According to my Abit board, the CPU in my sig runs at about 50 C idle and about 64 C under full load (hot room, no air conditioning - winter temps are about 6 C lower). Asus mobos read much lower temps.
 
what mobo you using? and my abit ic7g reads 45.5 ilde 59.5 full so if u have an abit ur in good condition
 
furiousfords89 said:
I have a p4 2.8c and a aero4 lite heatsink w/ arctic silver 5 and my temps are 30c idle and 38c load............are these temps considered to be really good?
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Well, perhaps that is because you're running a total of 9 or 10 fans in your system (I've included CPU and PSU fans in the total count) - and at least some of those fans are so screamingly loud that they can drown out even a (very powerful) home stereo audio system. :p

On a more typical 2.8C-based system with a total of just three or four moderately quiet fans (like mine), my reported temps are about 46°C at idle, and above 50°C at load.
 
My rig (in sig) runs at 33 idle, and 44 under load. Very very quiet due to Sonata with 2 * 120 fans and the Zalman cooler. I also run speedfan to keep things real for both 2D & 3D work.

My other box has an old Slot-A Athlon in it (700Mhz) and that thing makes a hell of a racket. Then I added 2 * 80mm fans and it went from bad to worse.

If you're looking for some peace & quiet (some people don't care I guess) then you'd do well to go with 120mm fans. Otherwise, your temps are pretty damn good :)
 
E4g1e said:
Well, perhaps that is because you're running a total of 9 or 10 fans in your system (I've included CPU and PSU fans in the total count) - and at least some of those fans are so screamingly loud that they can drown out even a (very powerful) home stereo audio system. :p

On a more typical 2.8C-based system with a total of just three or four moderately quiet fans (like mine), my reported temps are about 46°C at idle, and above 50°C at load.
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Let me clarify this:
This assumes that you're using only one or two 80mm fans for the exhaust, no fans for intake, the stock Intel retail-boxed CPU cooler and a fan or two in the power supply unit. Larger fans do cool better, but are also louder than smaller fans at equal RPM speed.
 
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