Ambient Temps = Case Temps?

[kirbymixmasta]

Wheres the best place to put my thermal probe(the case one) in my case to just find out my ambient temps? Im asking because my cpu already idles at 35c on a fairly hot day, and I'm wondering how much more a good hsf could lower it.

 

[tw33ter]

As far as I know, the lowest temp you'll be able to get, whether it be your ambient case temp or the cpu temp itself, is whatever the temp is in your room.

 

[HardWarrior]

35c idle is already pretty damn good. Load? I'd place that probe somewhere out of the airflow and not in direct contact with an internal surface. Bulb type, yes?

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: kirbymixmasta
Wheres the best place to put my thermal probe(the case one) in my case to just find out my ambient temps? Im asking because my cpu already idles at 35c on a fairly hot day, and I'm wondering how much more a good hsf could lower it.

Those are good temps . Trust me. The thing can handle up to 60C (If you're talking about most CPUs, except the Prescott which can do like 70 because that's how high it idles ).

I just stick my probe below the CPU, that way you'll get case temps but not case temp + cpu temp .

 

[imported_Soldier]

Ambient is the rooms air temp not the inside of the case. For ambient you'd have to mount the probe outside the case, better to just mount a thermo on the wall and look at it. Case air temp will be higher than ambient even with water cooling because of the mofsets, ram and harddrives all making thier own heat...

 

[Bona Fide]

Originally posted by: Soldier
Ambient is the rooms air temp not the inside of the case. For ambient you'd have to mount the probe outside the case, better to just mount a thermo on the wall and look at it. Case air temp will be higher than ambient even with water cooling because of the mofsets, ram and harddrives all making thier own heat...

He's talking about case ambient.

I would suggest what's already been said. Keep it out of the airflow and away from the hotter stuff (RAM, CPU, GFX, NB, HDD). Just tape it to the side panel that the mobo is NOT attached to.

 

[kirbymixmasta]

Thanks for the advice. But a cpu's temp can't go below the case temp right? Because I'm thinking about getting an xp-90 but I don't know how much more it can lower it. My case is about 30c according to the probe. Whoever was wondering 48c is my load >.>

 

[jkresh]

cpu cant go below ambient case temp without phasechange/peltier best you can do on air or water is ambient (or in reality slightly above ambient)

 

[imported_Soldier]

Or you could mount a rad outside the case like I did so your dealing with room ambient and not the case temp..