Temperature normal??

[hachiman]

Hi.

I built a brand new system today and am using Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H Motherboard with Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition CPU. I am only using the stock cooler and fan. I also have a 8cm side fan and 12 cm rear fan. Idle temp is 46 degrees and load is around 70. I am assuming thats centigrade. I am a bit worried about the 70 degree under load thing and am wondering if that is normal as my case is pretty hot?



Thanx

 

[davcon]

Temps could definitely be better.
What case do you have?

 

[jedimasterben]

Try taking your side panel off of your case. If temperatures improve significantly, then your problem is bad airflow.

 

[jpmucha]

A few guys here suggest putting a box fan on the side with the case open. That's probably a better judge if its an airflow problem. With the lid on, you ideally want cool air coming in the front... blowing across the 'heat sources' (GPU... hard drives)... pulling heat away as gets exhausts out the back, hopefully taking the heat away from the CPU and power supply. With the lid on, if you're blowing warm or hot air out the back, that's an indication that more heat is being produced than is being exhausted. Just taking the lid off may 'break' the flow if it existed. The fan pretty much makes flow everywhere... If the CPU is still hot... then the heatsink probably isn't getting the heat away fast enough.

What is the ambient (case) temperature? Is the system exhausting hot air? Are the fins on the heatsink hot to the touch? 45 degC at idle isn't spectacular (although I haven't run a Phenom system myself). Past 70 degC starts making me concerned... although the processors are usually designed to survive upto 100 degC (although I wouldn't do it...). If 70 degC is the hottest it ever gets... I could live with that... if it starts getting worse... I'd look harder for solutions (new heatsink and thermal paste... better inlet/exhaust fans... PCI slot fan by GPU... efficient power supply).

You might be OK... but figuring out the root cause of your temps wouldn't hurt.

 

[simon12]

I would definitely not want to run a PC with those temps. Unless your room temps are 30C+ there is something not right. Either airflow or poor cooler installation most likely.

 

[beanoslim]

Have you got cool n quiet enabled?

Check installation, just a small amount of paste http://www.arcticsilver.com/methods.html

70C is a bit warm but I've seen it with other 955's, some a hot runners.