[mythtv-users] How hot is your system?

[Andy Long]

I have a 2.8c in a system I use as a windows box.  Stock P4 cooler on it.
It runs at about 60 degrees celsius idle, and will get up into the low 70s
under load.  I've tried other HSFs on it (including the zalman you have),
re-applied arctic silver 5 twice, reseated it, etc...  I've been running it
that way for about 6 months and never had any problems with stability (yes,
even though it is on windows, no problems).  A friend pointed out that the
internal probe on the mobo could be wrong, which is a possibility w/ yours
too.  I've also read that those things can run in the low 80's for weeks and
not incur any long or short term problems.  People generally like their CPUs
as cool as possible, and you'll no doubt have some nut who has a modded
water cooling system pumping liquid nitrogen thru his system tell you that
60 is way too hot, but as long as it's giving you no stability problems, I
wouldn't worry about it one bit.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Longhurst" <steve at longsteve.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 5:11 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] How hot is your system?


> Hi all,
>
> My recent foray into building an HTPC was the first PC I've ever
> built, and I'm pretty pleased with it so far.
>
> I've got a 2.8Ghz P4 with Zalman flower cooler, Nvidia MX440, 1
> PVR-350, 1 PVR-250, a Nebula DigiTV, 2 HD's (80Gb + 120Gb) and an NEC
> DVDrw all in a Kanam Accent HTPC case.
>
> The CPU runs at about 48 degrees Celsius normally. It goes up to about
> 55 when I start compiling stuff and I have seen it at over 60 when I
> tried to load it a bit for testing. I don't know what the case
> temperature is, but it never feels all that hot.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable temperature for the CPU?  It seems
> happy enough and isn't unstable at all, but like I said, I've never
> built a PC before.
>
> Cheers,
>
>        Steve
>
> -- 
> Stephen Longhurst
> steve at longsteve.com
>
>


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