Ambient temp and core temps?

[Mango1970]

Ok so how much does your ambient temperature in your house affect the CPU temps? Is it a 1:1 ratio? With summer rolling in, my temps in my office went from normally 70 to what reads now as 78. Yet my computer temps have not changed?? How is this possible? The Q6600 is pretty much what it's always at.

Any reason for this? figured that as room temperature goes up... so does the CPU. No?

 

[Syzygies]

There are two competing simplistic approximations at play here:

1. Objects cool proportionate to the difference in temperatures, just as springs pull proportionate to their displacement. So to move the same watts, you'd need the same delta over ambient.

2. If you double the flame under a pot of water, it still just boils.

I can't make sense either of the numbers I see watching my TRUE. I'd guess that whatever's in the heat pipes is dominating other effects. Does it "boil"?

 

[Mango1970]

Christ I hope it does not boil!! LOL. Yah my TRUE is lapped, so is the CPU's heatsink. I am just stunned that a noticeable increase in temps in my office (I actually feet hot now in here).. does not have any adverse effect on the CPU temps for now. All good.. hope that it stays like this through the rest of the summer months.

 

[Foxery]

78F is only 25C. This is still so far below a CPU's operating temperature range of 50-70C that it's easy to keep cool.

50C is 122F, so you'll collapse from heat stroke before your computer does.

 

[Syzygies]

Originally posted by: Mango1970
Christ I hope it does not boil!! LOL.

Err, well, actually, ... What is a Heat Pipe?

 

[Drsignguy]

What's is crazy about this is, I don't see Ambient temps like that since my rigs are in lower level of the house, especially like what you have. My ambient temps are like 58 - 65 at most and I haven't experienced temps like those since the Vegas days. I have noticed that since those days, my temps ( no matter what I had ) were always, and I do mean always, struggeling to become lower. Living in an invironment with lower temps with added humidity is so nice. I am so glad those days are gone! Sorry dude, I just had to vent ( no pun )