I ran my computer for the first time last night and everything was fine except that my cpu was idling a temperature of 50 C.
Is this necessarily bad or should I get a better fan for it?
You’d better get new fan. Or else, move your PC to an air-conditioned room
Indeed. :freeman:
Did you install the heatsink properly?
And if the temp doesn’t go much higher under load you don’t HAVE to do anything about it.
Is it an i7-920-950 ?
They tend to lay around 50C with stock cooler.
If it goes beyond 60C on load then i recommend that you get a bigger heatsink or get a better flow through your cabin
Stock cooler? Seated correctly? Some CPU’s just run hot. My old E6750 on stock hit 85c under full load, whilst my friends only hit 60C.
Yep, check to make sure it’s on there correctly and theres good thermal compound, and then if it’s still too hot get a new heatsink/fan.
check your bios and make sure cpu overclocking is not set to Auto, because that option puts the vcore too high sometimes, which causes high temps.
I has i7 950 with stock fan
I had microcenter put on my cpu and fan, and I checked it over it looks fine.
I was messing with the bios settings but not with the cpu overclocking, so I’ll check that out
GPU on my dual core laptop is running at 75C. I have a cooling unit running straight on the fucker. Dunno what’s wrong with it.
My temps for my c2q Q9650 is at 37,32,31,33. They NEVER drop below those numbers no matter what I do (even with a big desktop fan right next to the case)
I recommend getting a new heatsink, even if you dont plan on overclocking. Its good peace of mind.
For the laptop it might be the battery wearing out and getting hot if it’s plugged in (or sometimes even on charge). I had a similar problem with my old laptop where it kept overheating because the battery got too hot and would heat everything else up.
I just upgraded my PC with the second gen i5 2500k cpu, and while it´s custom made case made for cooling (it used to house 2x 9800GX2, that´s quad sli, 6 hdds and an ovc´d q6600@3.4Ghz) and I was rather upset, as it only has 1 gpu now, and 3hdds, and while i wait for the socket adaptor for my liquid cooling system, it idles at 40c, 65 under load on stock cooler, Intel are getting sloppier and sloppier with coolers, no surprise then seeing everyone upgrading to after market coolers, decreasing the temp to up top 50% (no liquid coolers, just air).
rant over
My point is, get an aftermaket cooler, even the low end Xilence or Noctua (you don´t have to go for this brands, just the first that came to mind at around 25-30€ and less) will do a much better job.
If that´s the case, luckily battery prices are going down and down, even on awesome 6, 8 and even 10 cell lion batterys, which give hours and hours of use (I upgraded to a 10 cell on my acer 3810t which, granted it´s designed to run low on power use, with 6-8h as standard on a 6 cell, now lasts up to 15h, 10-12 of video, i.e. constant use).
Yea, that 950 will run idle around those temperatures.
I recommend getting a new heatsink, just to be safe for the long haul.
Heck, if you wanna shell out the cash, you should consider buying a liquid cooler, then that i7 will purr like a kitten(;
Yup, plus that way you´d be able to get more juice out of it by overcloking it (don´t need to overdoit either so it´s safe).
Paddy, i think you should wear a sunglass 