New Build, Temps Questio

[Ya93sin]

I'm not sure if this is bad or not, but I have (at idle)

CPU (i5-2500K) : 45

Mobo (ASUS P8Z68 V-PRO): 31

This is with the case side panel open, stock fans (2x230mm of crapness in the BitFenix Colossus), NH-D14, Stock Speed (1.224V)

I'm in a fairly hot room, in the mornings the Sun faces me.

With window closed, same settings, I have the same temps.

Is this too high? Next week I'm fully upgrading every case fan, not OC'ing just yet.

Is it worth reapplying thermal paste?

Thanks for your help, and here's a pic (GPU comes later today

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Also, if the Noctua NH-D14 is shaking a small amount (small enough that I can barely see it), is that OK? Thanks

PS Will be posting in the image gallery once the whole system is done

 

[sdms1010]

To hot mate, I would take off D14 checktim and start over fitting it making sure all mounts are on tight,reapply the tim then fit the D14. Also check that the board isscrewed down in the case and not loose. Sorry if I am teaching you to suck eggs

 

[sheroo]

Does seem a tad on the warm side. What is you ambient temp? Any reason that you don't have a rear case fan, as that may help.

 

[Ya93sin]

Not sure what ambient temp is, was very hot this morning (in room). I'm fitting all the fans in next week, so will have to see. Will also check this evening to see whether its the ambient temp.

If its still hot, I'm going to reinstall the cooler, maybe I made a mistake with the thermal paste (I used a drop of thermal paste, maybe to little)

Thanks for your replies

 

[Ya93sin]

Well I reapplied heat paste, reseated the D14, including moving it about slightly, made sure screws were tight into bracket.

Temps now:

CPU: 43 deg. C

Mobo: 28 deg. C

This is again at stock clocks, side panel open.

IMO its a combo of:

• My very warm room (thank god I didn't put this anywhere near the conservatory)
• Poor airflow from the case fans (temps above are same regardless of whether the side panel is on or off, hence my conclusion.

Will mess around with blowing my tower fan (as in the big things) towards the case, see if that helps. Will also update this week after next when I've got better case fans.

 

[ruthless_villain]

tbh it has been 22+ degrees recently normally we have 10-12 in the uk so it sounds about rite

 

[Ya93sin]

Hmm, well the good news is that I've been using it continuously since the last post, and the temperature has barely risen, so imo its ambient. Got me praying for rain now

 

[ruthless_villain]

dont do it, its been sunny for 5 whole days 5! in the UK you dont want that to stop do you

 

[tonkin97]

tbh it shouldnt run that high, my room is boiling and after the last weeking with the warm weather my cpu went up to 50c. and mine is overclocked. try and put your fans on a molex connecter see if that works or disable cool and quiet in bios if it has it

 

[Ya93sin]

No I don't think its the fans, BIOS reports them as running at near 1300rpm (which I think is nearly as fast as it can run).

Haven't got my copy of Windows delivered yet, so running prime or monitoring temps properly is difficult. PC stays quite cool, but then the CPU usage is rarely over 20/15/10/5 % (for cores 1/2/3/4). Looking in the BIOS just after 6 hours, temperatures were maybe a few degrees higher than they were at idle.

Will look through the BIOS again, maybe there is a setting that is keeping it warm. IMO it could just be airflow, I noticed that when I opened the door of the case (front) and closed the side panel I could feel a lot better airflow, so I'm going to report those temps later on today when I'm on the PC. Thanks for your help, I do appreciate it

May update BIOS too

Also (and correct me if I'm wrong), doesn't it take a little while for the cooler to start working optimally? Its been say 3 days since I built it, 2 days since I started using it properly with an OS.

 

[Ya93sin]

Right, so installed lm-sensors and xsensors into Ubuntu (which is the OS I am running until I get W7), and temperatures are displayed as the following (after a fair few hours use):

Core 1: 35 deg. C

Core 2: 37 deg. C

Core 3: 36 deg. C

Core 4: 37 deg. C

HDD: 32 deg. C

For the 4 cores, it did fluctuate between 34-36deg. C for C1/3, and between 36-38deg. C for C2/4

So now I'm just confused, those temps are imo when the computer is idling (the system is barely flexing its muscles for Ubuntu).

Hmm.

 

[Ya93sin]

K, little bit of info I picked up:

BIOS stresses the CPU at about 60% or around there, so temperatures in the BIOS are always going to be higher than in an Operating System Environment because of this-unless you are running processor intensive applications, e.g. Prime95 or Crysis 2

Therefore I don't think the temperatures are bad at all given that.