too cold?

[Ru7hl355]

built my brother a rig and these are his temps :S

i have overclocked him slightly to 2.8ghz but my ambient must be about 16-17c too so im worried this is too cold!

 

[Forceman]

Seems unlikely they would be so low unless you live in Michigan or something. Depending on cooler, you are unlikely to get lower than 5C-10C above ambient on air. Adding 15C to that would put you at 32C, which seems a more reasonable idle temp for an overclocked E6750.

 

[Sam__]

whats ur ambient?

 

[133]

It may be misreading. I wouldn't worry about it unless your HSF is super hot to the touch and its really misreading. there are people on here who run extreme cooling and have their rigs running in the negative temp range.

 

[TheRapture]

Due to the way the C2D sensor works....CoreTemp (or any other program for that matter) does not always interpret the digital signal properly. The BETTER way to use CoreTemp is to check the option that says something along the lines of "show temp delta to TMax" which makes it show the temp delta, before throttling will occur.

Trying to interpret actual temp is a hard thing to do and can vary quite a bit from revision to revision, but using the delta to tmax is much more accurate.

 

[Ru7hl355]

hi,

my ambient is about 13-15c as i live in scotland(-5 at night) speedfan gives me the same temps. but i will try the tmax thing.

the cooler is an AC Freezer 7 pro with AS5.
thanks

 

[TheRapture]

Nice! Here in Texas it is still 24c or so, and this is the second official day of winter