Xeon E5630 Hitting 80 Degrees Celsius While Gaming. Too Hot?

[hansel81]

I have a Dell Precision T5500 Workstation computer that I converted to a gaming machine. 24 GB ram, 2 quad core Xeon E5630's, and a MSI HD 7870 graphics card. The GPU is running at about 75 celsius, under intensive gaming but my CPU's are maxing out at 80 Degrees and staying there the entire gaming session. Are Xeon's meant to run hot? The cooler on my CPU's is stock for the Dell Precision but I noticed that it doesn't even have a fan built in to the cooler, it's just the heat fins with a fan blowing onto it from the front of the case. The fan is pretty close to the CPU's but I'm worried about those temps. Someone please help?!

 

[smorizio]

i would look for after market cpu cooler with fans. if it mot under size coolers is can be old thermal paste under the cpu cooler.

 

[hansel81]

Well I have an aftermarket cooler on my old PC. Its a pretty good zalman, but it is for a single amd socket CPU. It looks to be about the same size footprint as the heatsink on my dell but will that work? I'm pretty much a novice here so any help is greatly appreciated.

i would look for after market cpu cooler with fans. if it mot under size coolers is can be old thermal paste under the cpu cooler.

 

[Vlad Rose]

Xeons are capable of running 24/7 at that temperature, so in that aspect you're fine. Over 90 is when you'd have to start worrying. However I would look at an aftermarket cooling solution as well since I don't like my CPUs getting that hot.

 

[Vlad Rose]

Well I have an aftermarket cooler on my old PC. Its a pretty good zalman, but it is for a single amd socket CPU. It looks to be about the same size footprint as the heatsink on my dell but will that work? I'm pretty much a novice here so any help is greatly appreciated.

i would look for after market cpu cooler with fans. if it mot under size coolers is can be old thermal paste under the cpu cooler.

AMD and Intel use different mounting systems, so unless you have all the parts from the Zalman and it does support cross platform mounting, I'd say no.