CR6 Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 With quite a few people building Core 2 Duo/Quad rigs lately, I'm curious what kind of temps you are getting? Some folks have posted around this forum, but I'd like to consolidate here. Please specify the temp idling and under load, if you are using stock cooling or 3rd party fans/thermal paste, what kind of case and case fans you have, and your temp monitoring program vs. temps in your BIOS. What I'm curious about: - Are if quad cores are running much hotter than dual cores? - Do temp monitoring programs in Windows read different than in BIOS? - How much difference in temps are you getting with 3rd party vs stock cooling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoQuarter Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 CPU temp mean average- idle @18°C, under load @25°C, determined with ASUS AI BoosterII, NVIDIA nTune (consistent). All clocks stock, and all fans @ normal duty cycle. Good ambient, MB, GPU temps as well...the chassis is so big that it looks empty...good airflow Asus P5N32-E SLI, Intel C2E QX6700, Zalman CNPS9700led, Crucial Ballistix 2GB PC2-8500, 2xWestern Digital WD1500ADFD, EVGA P2-N831-AR 8800GTX, Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi-Xtreme Gamer, Thermaltake Tough Power 700wt CM, Lite-On LH-20A1L-05 DVD, Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS (w/1 additional A-1926 front-mount intake fan). Zalman STG1 (paste) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCO*AFZ* Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 Just as a note... the Temps in the bios will always be higher. This is because when you are in the bios the cpu won't take advantage of the power saving and speed stepping processes windows provide ...especially when idle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 Running all 4 cores, topped out at 39C. MB is at 34C. My room is actually kinda cold at the moment since I have the windows open but I'd say that's pretty darn impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share Posted September 21, 2007 Running all 4 cores, topped out at 39C. MB is at 34C. My room is actually kinda cold at the moment since I have the windows open but I'd say that's pretty darn impressive. Nice. What temp monitoring software are you using? Also, if you don't mind, could you post what temps you get in your BIOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Running all 4 cores, topped out at 39C. MB is at 34C. My room is actually kinda cold at the moment since I have the windows open but I'd say that's pretty darn impressive. Nice. What temp monitoring software are you using? Also, if you don't mind, could you post what temps you get in your BIOS? Asus PC Probe 2 In the BIOS (under no load obviously) I get 34C for the CPU and 36C for the MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Militiaman Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I don't have a dual or quad core, but my temperature I am getting in BIOS is 39 degrees celsius. Running an AMD Athlon 64-bit 4000+ processor. Is there anyway to access your current processor and system temperature while running Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisp Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 (edited) Try this for finding out your CPU speed http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/ Core Temp works on Windows 2000, XP and 2003 (both 32bit and 64bit versions). "Core Temp lets you monitor Intel "Core Duo", "Core Solo" (Yonah), "Core 2 Duo", "Core 2 Extreme", "Core 2 Quad", " Pentium E1000" series, "Celeron 400" series (Allendale, Conroe, Merom, Kentsfield, Conroe-L respectively), "Xeon 3000/3200/5100/5300" series (Woodcrest, Clovertown respectively) and all AMD K8 (AMD64) series die temperature. The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part. This sensor is digital, which means it doesn't rely on an external circuit located on the motherboard to report temperature, its value is stored in a special register in the processor so any software can access and read it. This eliminates any inaccuracy that can be caused by external motherboard circuits and sensors and then different types of programs trying to read those sensors." Edited October 17, 2007 by Chrisp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Cool program Chrisp I don't have Core2 but I thought I'd share Maybe I'd get a hint or warning from you guys who understand this stuff I am being nosy lately about watercooling the CPU just so I can say I tried watercooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Militiaman Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Core Temp works on Windows 2000, XP and 2003 (both 32bit and 64bit versions). Downloaded Core Temp and tried it out. Currently getting tempreature readings of 28 degrees celsius. Thanks for giving me the information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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