I have embarked on my first build: a fanless Mini-ITX system for browsing, writing and developing.
Today I built up the system, booted it and switched into the BIOS. And then I watched the CPU temperature, hoping to feel good. I did not feel good. I watched the 7500T immediately jump to 67 C and then steadily rise to 75 C until I called it a day. The junction temperature for this CPU is 80 C.
Note that I did not attach any cooling system, active or passive, to this CPU. So my first question is whether that is necessary for this kind of a system? I can see three scenaries here:
Thanks for your help.
■ CPU: Core i5-7500T
■ motherboard: ASRock H270M-ITX/ac
■ memory: 2 DDR4 PC4-17000 UDIMMs
■ storage: 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD (Samsung)
■ case: Antec ISK110-VESA
Today I built up the system, booted it and switched into the BIOS. And then I watched the CPU temperature, hoping to feel good. I did not feel good. I watched the 7500T immediately jump to 67 C and then steadily rise to 75 C until I called it a day. The junction temperature for this CPU is 80 C.
Note that I did not attach any cooling system, active or passive, to this CPU. So my first question is whether that is necessary for this kind of a system? I can see three scenaries here:
■ active cooling: of course this would work, but there go my plans for a fanless system
■ passive cooling: these devices seem to be very large and/or expensive
■ bad CPU: is this kind of temperature buildup excessive or is this pilot error?
Thanks for your help.