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Am I running too hot?

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flynismo

Junior Member
Hi all,

Just upgraded to the Q6600 Quad Core. My idle temps with stock HS and fan are in the low 50's, and under load hits high 60's, even cracked into the low 70's today. I've tried making sure that the heatsink is as tight and flush as possible, and even took the side case door off and blew a small highspeed fan into the case right at the cpu, but nothing I do seems to bring the temperatures down. I noticed that other stock setups that are not overclocked like myself run much cooler...usually in the 40's at idle and high 50's to low 60's under load.
I have a decent Apevia case with one fan one the top and two in the back pulling air out of the case, plus another real small fan inside the case pointing at the fan up top, to help push air out. Also, the temp inside the case is usually in the low 30's. Despite all this, the temps are staying where they are; can't get them to go down.


Just a shot in the dark, but I'm wondering if this may have anything to do with my situation.
In addition to upgrading from the E6300 to the Q6600, I also upgrade from stock integrated graphics to a GeForce 8500 NVIDIA GPU, and added an additional 2GB RAM, but I have not yet upgraded my stock 300w PSU. Is it possible that I am "overworking" my PSU, causing things to run hot? I am putting in an order for an ASUS fan/heatsink and a 500w PSU, as well as a Gigabyte mobo with the heatpipes all over the board this week, but in the meantime is it safe for me to still be running the stock PSU?

Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions.
 
Did that PSu come with the case?

Either way its a bit small for the system but doesn't acount for the high CPU temps. If the CPU cooler is seated properly then i don't know whats going on. Are you OCing it atall?
 
No, the PSU was just taken out of my old system.
I'm not overclocking; I want to but first I need to get the temps under control before I even think about it...

During the day, the room temp is ~80, at night when it's cooler out I crank up the a/c and blow a box fan directly into the case. When I do that, the idle temps drop 5-7 degrees, which is great, but it still puts my idle temps at 50 degrees, which is still too high.
 
With abient temps at 80 its no surprise the temps are where they are. Often people have there average room temp at about 70F and there CPU idels at about 40c to 42c. So thats about 107F so nearly 40F over the room temp. 50c works out to about 122F which is about 42 degree over the room temp so your idel temp seems about right. Either way if you want to OC you'll need a better cool and to get that room temp down.
 
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