E2180 Average Temperatures?

[Lagged2Death]

I just built a PC for the first time. I used a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard and an Intel E2180 CPU. I'm using the stock Intel aluminum-only cooler that came with the CPU, and the stock thermal compound that came on the CPU. The system works great.

I picked the CPU partly because I had hoped to tinker with overclocking a bit. But utilities like SpeedFan show that even at stock CPU speed (10x200=2GHz) and stock CPU voltage (1.325v) a few minutes of Orthos (or similar stress-testing) gets the CPU cores up to 50-52 C or so.

Isn't that kind of hot for a stock setup? What temperatures do other E2180 users see at stock settings?

 

[Deinonych]

How is the airflow in your case? If you have high ambient temps inside the case, you're going to struggle getting those core temps down.

 

[Lagged2Death]

Wow, quick on the draw there, Deinonych!

I don't know of any way to measure the airflow, but I thought it would be pretty good for a single fan. The entire front of the case is open grille-work, and there's a 120mm fan at the back, which seems to be blowing pretty well. There are no ribbon cables inside, and there's a side intake for the CPU cooler.

According to my digital cooking thermometer, the case fan's exhaust air is around 30 C, in a 22 C room. I don't know if that's good or bad.

[Edit]I don't know how orthodox this is, but it ocurred to me that if airflow in the case is an issue, I should observe a drop in CPU temp when I take off the side off the case. But opening the case only drops the CPU temp by 1 or 2 degrees C.

 

[Doctorweir]

50-52 load temps are perfectly fine while priming...especially considering it's the stock heatsink and compound.
Temps are read from coretemp and not the motherboard sensor I hope?

The E21xx series is fine with load temps beyond 60C (official Tcase spec is 73C) so you still have room for overclocking just now. The default voltage is quite high, so you can take some MHz more with that I presume...

And there is tons of options left...aftermarket HSF, apply Arctic Silver 5, lapping the usually concave Heatspreader...

 

[Lagged2Death]

Originally posted by: Doctorweir
50-52 load temps are perfectly fine while priming...especially considering it's the stock heatsink and compound.

Thanks, that's reassuring to hear. I've been reading up on this stuff but stock operating temperature isn't something the overclocking crowd writes very much about.

Temps are read from coretemp and not the motherboard sensor I hope?

They're read from where ever SpeedFan reads the temperature labeled "Core 0" and "Core 1." I hope that's from inside the CPU package somehwere.

And there is tons of options left ... apply Arctic Silver 5...

I guess I've been assuming that the gains from thermal compound alone would be pretty small. I'd be delighted to be wrong, though.