Saturday a friend replaced my themal paste on my cpu with Artic Silver 5. He did the card method.
I turned it on and ran it like normal. I've been watching the CPU temps all weekend and Monday. I'm idling at 53-55c and load is around 63-67c. Is this normal? Specs below.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX
ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS 700W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive x3
MSI R7970 Lightning Radeon HD 7970 3GB
I turned it on and ran it like normal. I've been watching the CPU temps all weekend and Monday. I'm idling at 53-55c and load is around 63-67c. Is this normal? Specs below.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX
ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS 700W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive x3
MSI R7970 Lightning Radeon HD 7970 3GB