cidamelo Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi friends, I'm worried! My CPU temperature is around 55 °C when idle! When I play some game, it reaches almost 70 degrees celcius!! My city is really hot these days, and my computer is feeling it! I'm worried, is it too high? I think my computer was never so hot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 What CPU do you have? Anyway, 70C at load doesn't seem that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 2 things we need to know first. 1. Exactly which CPU is it? 2. What is your room temp? I the mean time, get some canned air and blow out any dust. If you've never used canned air before, this use these tips. * Always hold the can upright, a little downward angle is ok just not too much and never hold it upside down while pressing the trigger. * Use short bursts instead of holding the trigger. The can will get very very cold for one thing. The reason for both of these is that both can cause it to spray moisture on your hardware inside and that could be a very bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Sorry friends!! I forgot to tell my CPU! It's an Intel Core2Quad Q8200 2.33 GHz! I'm not sure about my room temperature, but it feels more than 30 °C! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 You're room is 30C? That's 86F and holy hell is that hot for a room in the house, that isn't the kitchen. My house is normally around 73F (23C) while my bedroom where the system is around 75F (24C). My i7-2600 sits around 38-40C idle but then I'm also not using the stock cooler. In the same house, but different room I have my old Q8200, also not on the stock cooler, that is currently idle around 50C. The Tcase Max (max temp) for the Q8200 is 71.4C. So yeah I would get a better cooler, more so if you're using the stock cooler. I'd also figure out a way to lower the room temp greatly. What are you using to track the CPU temps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 Wolf68k my computer's room is VERY HOT! My house is cold, just this room is hot, can you believe it! Today it was very hot!! Yesterday, for example, it wasn't very hot, and my CPU temperature was around 44 degrees.... I think I can't afford a new cooler... you know, the year beggining has a lot of bills to pay! But, and if I use the case open? Is it dangerous or not?? If my CPU reach 71.4C, what happens?? The computer shuts down, or it starts to burn?? I'm using HWMonitor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anus Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Clean out the PC with some compressed air like Wolf said. Get a new, better cooler when you can, but 70C won't do any damage at all. Modern CPUs are pretty much impossible to be damaged by heat as they are designed to throttle or shut down before any damage can be done. 70C load is not even close to the throttling/shutdown temp, so it won't do any damage. Don't worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 The most that might happen is that the CPU will down clock to try and save itself. Intel shuts down as an extreme measure. I think AMD does the same things to save itself these days, but their CPUs of the past would just burn up. There's an old Tom's Hardware video that shows what happens when you remove the cooler from Intel and AMD CPUs of the time; it's kind of interesting to watch and yet scary too. HWMonitor is good. I usually use RealTemp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 The Tcase Max (max temp) for the Q8200 is 71.4C. Yup, but it's the max temperature of IHS; cores can be a little hotter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 7 five 11 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Wolf68k my computer's room is VERY HOT! My house is cold, just this room is hot, can you believe it! Today it was very hot!! Yesterday, for example, it wasn't very hot, and my CPU temperature was around 44 degrees.... I think I can't afford a new cooler... you know, the year beggining has a lot of bills to pay! But, and if I use the case open? Is it dangerous or not?? If my CPU reach 71.4C, what happens?? The computer shuts down, or it starts to burn?? I'm using HWMonitor! Cida, i have the same problem at times, in summer with the tv on and the computer and PS3 running, well my room hits 40+ degrees at times, it is very well insulated, which while great in winter, in summer it sucks, i am upstairs in the sharehouse as well. Get a pedestal fan, helps you feel cool, and should help keep the room alittle cooler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 Wolf68k I've watched this video! It creeps me out, when my computer gets hotter I remember this video!! Warlord. yes I'll try to clean it! I hope 70 °C doesn't do a lot of damage to my computer! finn4life I use a fan in my room, but it is still hot! I want to go to a beach, I can't take more hot weather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 You can make a ghetto AC. Get a big bowl, and it's a good idea to put a cookie sheet or something like it, shallow with all 4 sides raised up. In the bowl put a bunch of ice. Put that about 6-12inches in front of the fan. Although now that I think about it, I wonder how well one or two of those ice gel packs would work has the same function as the ice. Less worry about excess water and less waste of water in general and they might/should last longer than water/ice would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Thanks for the tips Wolf68k! You're really helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K^2 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 There is nothing really wrong with running PC with an open case. It's not a great solution in the long run, but if it works for now, I'd say go for it. Prior to filing a bug against any of my code, please consider this response to common concerns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 There is nothing really wrong with running PC with an open case. It's not a great solution in the long run, but if it works for now, I'd say go for it. Actually in some cases (I don't mean computer cases, and yet I do, wow that's confusing) having the case open can have an affect on the cooling. I've seen where the case open actually caused the temps to go up slightly compared to having it closed. It's a matter of air flow. With the access panel open there is no air flow at all. Speaking of air flow that is a good question that never got asked.... @cidamelo Does your case have a front case fan to pull air in? How many case fans in general are there? Is the computer up on a desk/table or on the floor? If it's on the floor is it carpet (deep or shallow?) or wood/tile/some other hard surface? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Wolf68k yes it has! I think it has 4 fans, I'm not sure....... I assume my case is in an HORRIBLE place, it's in a wooden floor, and it is around a lot of other things... he is kind of suffocated! But it's because this room is a mess! I'll reform the whole room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Well there's a good weekend project: clean your room, ya slob just playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Yes I know!! I've had too much work these days, but now I'm kind in a "holiday", so I'll clean the room! I hope my computer gets colder because of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I'm running my latest PC gaming rig in a cold basement room, running EfLC really slow, cover off the rig, and shooting some video for YouTube to demonstrate, however there is Pros and cons on both sides, My theory is cold air is all around the chassis, a PSU fan aids the CPU fan, yet still my board shut down, and the CPU seemed the hottest, but most troubling is the 500GB HDD WD drive I bought shows up in Astra32 diagnostics as BAD, requiring immediate backup of data, however, nothing unusual ever happened to this drive, and given it's size, had hoped for years of service from it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 @Slamman The fact that your mobo shuts down doesn't prove that it's hot or cold or normal temps. It could be anything. You're famous for talking about dumpster diving and Goodwill shopping and basically taking any old parts that you can get your hands on. So the problem could be a simple matter of age. Your HDD being diagnosed as "BAD" also doesn't necessarily mean the temps are the cause, here again it could be age or physical damage. And what does the size of the drive have to do with how long it's going to live? A PSU fan has little to no help in cooling a CPU and it's cooling system. A PSU with a fan on the bottom of the unit does pull air from the case into itself but only with the idea it's trying to force air in to cool itself down better than relying solely on a fan that blows air out. If the case is designed to have the PSU on the bottom of it and if it is then designed so that the larger PSU fan is pointed down, then that PSU fan will be pulling in outside air to cool itself....that is as long as the case isn't sitting on carpet or something that would obstruct the bottom of the PC case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 The case is a Generic PII designed board, originally I think it had a Jetway board sharing 370 and Slot 1 provisions for an Intel or VIA chipset with dipswitch overclocking capable, I outfitted those with 500Mhz Celerons and over clocked them in fact, they worked nice, but I used one or two cases to fit full size modern ATX mobos since normally I run MiniATX out of necessity, smaller desktop footprints agree with me Anywho, to make it work, the case is designed to mount the PSU mid-center in the case, not the top, not the bottom, the fan for the PSU in-take is positioned DIRECTLY on top of the CPU fan, so a large heatsink won't even work on a case mount like this, However, the heatsink is not an Intel design, it's ThermalTake large profile for 775 socket, the mobo is the Asus P5Q SE2 with Pentium D at 3.2Ghz mentioned, swapping between the PCIe cards I have best suited for GTA IV, the 8600GT and the ATI 5450, which itself has 1GB of vRAM, the card there is the silent NON FAN type, large heatsink covers most of the card itself The memory is dual channel 2GB DDR2, so it IS running GTA IV Episodes, just seems very slow compared to my first attempt and the Heat Sink CPU is the component getting the hottest from what I observed, The case is designed with a top-and both sides approach, screwing in place at the back, so removed, just the box frame is intact, with the mobo side solid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swoorup Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Umm, is it possible to down-clock the CPU or Graphic Card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Yeah, why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Opposite of Over-clocking? I thought you start at stock settings and ramp up, by increasing speed and voltage, it's a common solution to increasing performance, like hot-rodding a car from the factory, but to get it going slower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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