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room temperature and cpu temperature question

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WiL11o6

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My question is does the room temperature have a large effect (or affect, I forgot which one is a noun or verb) on my CPU and other component's temperature?

About last week, when it was crazy cold, I OC'd my e6400 to 3.0ghz @ 1.29v on stock cooling, it was idling at a decent ~45c and load at ~50c. Then a few days ago, when the weather got warmer, maybe about 5-10c warmer, it started idling at ~50c and load at ~55c. At first, I was thinking that I may have damaged it somehow by putting in too much voltage, so I reduced my OC to 2.6ghz @ 1.25v. However, I remember the last time I OC'd at 2.6ghz (in the cold), it was ~5c warmer in idle/load than it is now.

Hopefully I did not harm my CPU or anything, and it appears that my GPU is about 5c hotter as well on idle/load.
It's hard to think that room temperature can affect my computer temperatures that much since everything is enclosed in a case so I would assume that it does it's own cooling or whatever.

I am also running my computer on a 500w power supply. I say this because I am running an OC'd e6400 and a 9800 GTX+ so I know I am close to putting max load on my PSU, maybe.
 
Ambient temperature has EVERYTHING to do with idle and load temps. The larger the difference in temperature from ambient the HS is the better it will cool. Are you using the stock HS? 50C seems a wee bit high for idle, and what are you using to load the chip? It must not be much of a load to only up the temp by 5C.

On a side note your not running anywhere near enough volts to damage the chip, 65nm chips are safe to 1.5v.
 
I am using stock HS and I noticed that my CPU has always been a wee bit higher than most other people's. Even at stock voltage and stock 2.13ghz, it idles at around 35-40c.

I should be fine if I OC it back up to 3.0ghz then? Even if it's a wee bit higher than normal idle/load temps, but at least it's under 60-70c on loads.

I use Prime95 and tried OCCT to test load.
 
It's just that - the ambient temperature. Don't worry about the 5 degrees; you're still in the safe range.
 
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