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Hey everyone... Last time I'm going to post about speedfan or cooling lol. Anyways, I've been using speedfan for a while, and noticed some things. I've become more farmiliar with it. Seeing as how Temp 1(1) and temp 2 are false. -128c isn't right... other than that, Temp 3(Processor?) HD0 (HDD), Temp 1(2) is a false recording, it's the ACPI, but always sits at 57c and never moves... GPU is my graphics card, and the core is the case, which are always the same(The case and GPU are).


So... I was wondering... My CPU always seems to be hot. Sometimes it drops, but sometimes it idles at a high reading. Right now... after playing CoD4, then powering down for 10 minutes, and just typing this... here are my readings.

Temp 3: 57c
HD0: 33c
GPU: 33c
Core:33c

I have the other useless ones disabled. I have all fans to 100% and the side of the case is on. I have one small intake in the front, 1 small exhaust in the back, 1 big exhaust on the top. The case is an Armor a90 Thermaltake, and I can't turn the fan speeds up in BiOS (If someone has a program that I can do that in, I'd love you long time). My CPU heatsink and fan are ghetto rigged on right now, because the retention plate didn't fit the sink... It's touching the CPU and the thermal is holding and everything, it's just hot glued on there for the time being (Until I can find the right retention plate).

My friend just upgraded his tower, so he has some fans laying around that I can have. I have an empty side fan slot, 120mm I believe. Should I get an intake or an exhaust? And should I pick up a smaller intake for the front aswell? Will these changes help my CPU temperatures? And are the temperatures I'm getting right now bad. As in bad, I mean damaging.

Are there any more accurate programs to test temperatures on your rig? Possibly better than speedfan? I'd love to know.



---Thanks---

Brad

[coastie65]

Hey Brad, Try this: http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html

This post has been edited by coastie65: 25 September 2010 - 07:51 AM

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coastie65, on 25 September 2010 - 07:50 AM, said:

Hey Brad, Try this: http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html

Thanks coastie! I've also noticed that my desktop takes alot of CPU usage and tends to make it hot. I have a custom desktop with a different theme, aswell as a RainMeter setup.

[coastie65]

Abandon, on 25 September 2010 - 07:58 AM, said:

coastie65, on 25 September 2010 - 07:50 AM, said:

Hey Brad, Try this: http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html

Thanks coastie! I've also noticed that my desktop takes alot of CPU usage and tends to make it hot. I have a custom desktop with a different theme, aswell as a RainMeter setup.

Desktop shouldn't be doing that. Must be something else in the background. I have a Pentium D in my eMachines and that thing is a space heater. At idle it is usually around 50C to 53C and from all indications is pretty normal for that. I don't know the age of the computer, but you could try removed the Processor and cleaning off the old thermal compound from the processor and Heatsink and reapplying some fresh stuff ( Arctic Silver 5 ).

This post has been edited by coastie65: 25 September 2010 - 12:59 PM

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coastie65, on 25 September 2010 - 12:52 PM, said:

Abandon, on 25 September 2010 - 07:58 AM, said:

coastie65, on 25 September 2010 - 07:50 AM, said:

Hey Brad, Try this: http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html

Thanks coastie! I've also noticed that my desktop takes alot of CPU usage and tends to make it hot. I have a custom desktop with a different theme, aswell as a RainMeter setup.

Desktop shouldn't be doing that. Must be something else in the background. I have a Pentium D in my eMachines and that thing is a space heater. At idle it is usually around 50C to 53C and from all indications is pretty normal for that. I don't know the age of the computer, but you could try removed the Processor and cleaning off the old thermal compound from the processor and Heatsink and reapplying some fresh stuff ( Arctic Silver 5 ).

That's good to know that a Pentium D is normally hot. The thermal on there is brand new. It's Cooler Master HTK-002. Put it on a few days ago.

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Oh yes, and clarification... I may have confused some people haha. I didn't mean retention plate. Had my parts mixed up. I meant the plastic piece that holds the fan in place. I'd love to know where I can get one that would fit a Thermaltake TR2-M12. It has 2 clamps that clamp the the holder.

[coastie65]

Hi, I just reread your intial post. The 120mm Fans can be placed for either intake or exhaust, just depends on how you mount it. I would definitely use as many as I could to establish good airflow through there. Never hurts. As for the thermal coumpound, you can use too much. You don't to put it on as if you were icing a cake as that would be too much and actually insulate the processor, causing it to over heat.

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coastie65, on 25 September 2010 - 03:46 PM, said:

Hi, I just reread your intial post. The 120mm Fans can be placed for either intake or exhaust, just depends on how you mount it. I would definitely use as many as I could to establish good airflow through there. Never hurts. As for the thermal coumpound, you can use too much. You don't to put it on as if you were icing a cake as that would be too much and actually insulate the processor, causing it to over heat.

I put a pea size dot on the processor, and a pea size dot on the back of the Heatsink. Thats normal, right?