p4 3.2HT @ 39C decent?

[LOUISSSSS]

yea.. how is that above for an idle temperature with a scythe ninja with no fan attached, just a lian li v1000b plus with top 120mm intake with no grill??
also how is a 25C motherboad temperature? normal, low, or high, inbetween??

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

my readings at idle are 32 cpu and 27 mb celsius

 

[LOUISSSSS]

what cpu cooler?

 

[Sean Maxwell]

seems a bit hot, just attach a fan if you want some heat reduction

 

[imported_Stew]

Those are normal temperatures.

 

[Swedish Avenger]

Well seeing as most fanless HSs come with a warning 'only for web browsing / light utility work' 39 C is pretty awesome. Now just bolt 2 120 fans on that baby, I recon you could probably out cool most other HSF combos out there.

I did read this warning on Viperlair for the Ninja: 'While Scythe says you can run without a fan, they recommend not doing so for high end CPUs. We can tell you that do not even try to attempt this with any Intel CPU, regardless of socket, clocked in excess of 3.0GHz. You may be able to get away with no fan on an Athlon 64 3200+, but we needed one on our 4000+ when we put the CPU under load for more than 5 minutes'

 

[zagood]

That's a good idle temperature. Unfortunately, you have to test it under load to find out if you can use it as a fanless solution.

Run Prime95 (two instances for HT) and if the temp gets up to 60c and looks like it's still rising, stop the test and shut down your machine. Leave it off for a while and let it cool down. Then add a fan.

The problem with fanless heatsinks is that they don't dissipate heat as quickly. You know when you have a heatsink with fan, and when you stop whatever's putting the CPU under load is stopped, and the temps automatically go down? A fanless heatsink will stay around the same temp for a longer period of time (and will probably keep increasing). They need convection to remove the large amounts of heat that you'll create under load.

Now, if you have a lot of airflow through your case (and I mean a LOT) then you might not have to worry about it. But what's the point of adding 4 fans to your case when you can just add one to your heatsink?

What you should do is attach a fan to the heatsink, just leave it on very low speed for normal applications, then turn it up for gaming/superpi/whatevahs.

-z

 

[Bobthelost]

It's not bad, but not great either.

If i were you i'd get a nexus orange fan and undervolt it, if you can hear a nexus at five volts over everything else in your computer then you're just plain wierd

If you want you can use somthing like speed fan to keep the speed low until the temps rise above say 45*C and then it could speed up.

 

[gsellis]

That is normal for the E version. My Xeon's run the same and peak at 55-57 (and man are Intel Windtunnels running the stock 60mm fans at 15krpm loud).

 

[Swedish Avenger]

That scythe ninja can mount 2 120mm fans... nuff said really

 

[LOUISSSSS]

yea.. but with my motherboard, asus p5p800, it seems that i cannot fit a 120mm fan to the nexus

 

[Bobthelost]

Mine sits litterally on top of the RAM, you should be able to fit a fan on one of the four sides...

 

[LOUISSSSS]

its not the ram problem, i have a Lian li v1000b and the metal plate that divides the mb from the psu is in the way, not allownig enough room for one side of the fan... anyone have any idea?

 

[Auric]

Look up the thermal spec... it's prolly something like 70C. As said, test under load and if it does not exceed that and remains stable then no worries. Only add noise as necessary.