Hello,
My question is does the room temperature have a large effect (or affect, I forgot which one is a noun or verb) on my CPU and other component's temperature?
About last week, when it was crazy cold, I OC'd my e6400 to 3.0ghz @ 1.29v on stock cooling, it was idling at a decent ~45c and load at ~50c. Then a few days ago, when the weather got warmer, maybe about 5-10c warmer, it started idling at ~50c and load at ~55c. At first, I was thinking that I may have damaged it somehow by putting in too much voltage, so I reduced my OC to 2.6ghz @ 1.25v. However, I remember the last time I OC'd at 2.6ghz (in the cold), it was ~5c warmer in idle/load than it is now.
Hopefully I did not harm my CPU or anything, and it appears that my GPU is about 5c hotter as well on idle/load.
It's hard to think that room temperature can affect my computer temperatures that much since everything is enclosed in a case so I would assume that it does it's own cooling or whatever.
I am also running my computer on a 500w power supply. I say this because I am running an OC'd e6400 and a 9800 GTX+ so I know I am close to putting max load on my PSU, maybe.
Thanks
My question is does the room temperature have a large effect (or affect, I forgot which one is a noun or verb) on my CPU and other component's temperature?
About last week, when it was crazy cold, I OC'd my e6400 to 3.0ghz @ 1.29v on stock cooling, it was idling at a decent ~45c and load at ~50c. Then a few days ago, when the weather got warmer, maybe about 5-10c warmer, it started idling at ~50c and load at ~55c. At first, I was thinking that I may have damaged it somehow by putting in too much voltage, so I reduced my OC to 2.6ghz @ 1.25v. However, I remember the last time I OC'd at 2.6ghz (in the cold), it was ~5c warmer in idle/load than it is now.
Hopefully I did not harm my CPU or anything, and it appears that my GPU is about 5c hotter as well on idle/load.
It's hard to think that room temperature can affect my computer temperatures that much since everything is enclosed in a case so I would assume that it does it's own cooling or whatever.
I am also running my computer on a 500w power supply. I say this because I am running an OC'd e6400 and a 9800 GTX+ so I know I am close to putting max load on my PSU, maybe.
Thanks