Do these temps. look ok?

[Synomenon]

I just helped a friend build a new system with an i7-3960X and Radeon HD7970 in a SilverStone FT03.

I he hasn't given me his temps. yet when he's stressing the 7970, but its idle temp. is usually around 60C.

He leaves it running all the time (he runs BOINC) and he games as well.

After a few hours of folding (100% CPU usage), temps. for the 3960X sit around 48C for three of the cores and up to 58C for the rest of the cores.

He's using a Zalman CNPS9900-Max:
http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=416


He could have gone with a better cooler, but his Vengeance RAM gets in the way of pretty much all of the better air-coolers and the radiators on the Corsair liquid coolers.

Do those temps. look ok? Are the cores with the higher temps. being "used" more by BOINC?

 

[Synomenon]

Bump...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had like a 5C spread between cores at times, when running BOINC on my quad-core Q9300 @ 3.0 chips. Different projects can also use the CPU to different levels of utilization.

Right now, I'm running an AMD X6 1045T @ 3.51, and CoreTemp only reports a single temp for the chip, so I can't comment on the spread on my current rig.

 

[abekl]

Temps appear to be in the normal range. No worries.

 

[Synomenon]

Another thing I forgot to mention:

Along with the fan in the HD7970 and Zalman CNPS9900-Max, his FT03 case has three additional 120mm Enermax Cluster fans, an 80mm Enermax Cluster and the 135mm fan in his PSU.

All of the fans except the one in the HD7970 and the one in the PSU are connected to voltage reduction cables (12V to 7V). I haven't taken sound measurements, but it's gotta be more quiet than my i7-2600 system w/ Corsair H60.