Temperatures

[Jik47]

Could someone tell me the operating temperatures for the P III 1GHz? I would appreciate the info. Thanks.....

 

[Cruze8]

well if you have a pretty good heatsink you should be around the 30c idle- 40-50c load temps... p3's are rated to handle 90c but you should try to keep the temps below the 50c range

 

[Jik47]

I have a CoolerMaster fan that is rated for 27.5 of air flow and I when I checked the Cmos under PC Health, my temps were 35 C system temp and 50 C CPU temp? These are the two readings it gives me and are these ok? Why is there a system temp and a CPU temp? I appreciate your assistance. :confused

 

[CubicZirconia]

The cpu temp is the temp of the cpu itself. The system temp is usually taken somewhere on the motherboard and is used to judge case temps. Improving air flow in the case with fans will usually drop the system temp.

 

[Jik47]

I had a reply today talking about system temps and load temps, could anyone tell how you monitor this and what does the load temp mean? Do the temps I have listed in my previous reply look alright? Does anyone know of a program of program called "Motherboard Monitor" and what will it do for and is it a free download? I appreciate all the assistance people. Thanks.....

 

[olivierr]

I have the same temperatures, 35/50.

I assumed you added some thermal paste between the cpu surface and your heatsink. If not, that's the first thing to do. buy some arctic silver.

I am a 'newbie' in rigging a system from scratch, I probably did the same 'mistake' as you, and got blinded by heatsink benchmarks and all that nonsense, when actually the first thing to sort out is the system temperature. 35 degrees is a bit high for 'system' (or 'at the surface of the motherboard', correct me if I'm wrong) temperature, which obviously also increase the cpu temperature. You can't get 30 degrees if your system runs already at 35 degrees, at least with a air cooling system.

You and I need to decrease the system temperature first by adding fans in the case. A large case would help. Mine is a tiny mini tower, hardly air-flow efficient. A big case allows you to add loads of fans, make room between your disk drives (they heat up madly sometimes, and you can damage your precious disk drives). and tuck the cables away from the case and cpu fans. If you get a 15 degrees difference between the air around the heatsink and at the surface of the core, and you decrease the system temperature down to 20 degrees, then you'll get roughly 35 degrees for the cpu, which is perfect. Blowing hot hair to/from (which way you recon?) the cpu will never help decrerase it's temperature. To lower the system temperature, I have to take out one of the side of the case, and then the delta fan litteraly screams like hair dryer. My fan and heatsink do a pretty good job, after an intense session of Quake, my temperature only goes up a few degrees, and never goes beyond 60. 60 should be the limit, and you can download Motherboard Monitor or some other software to warn you if it does goes other the limit.

But the more you add fans, the louder your computer's gonna get. It depends on how much you can take really. I got used to my 7200 rpm delta, but a good case design and placing the case fans carefully at strategic points maximise the air flow, and minimise the headackes.

Ultimately, go for one of those funky water/oiled cooled system, super cool, and super silent. Haaa, the sound of silence...

Yours,

Olivier.

specs
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Athlon XP 1700@1465Mhz
Delta Fan 7200 rpm
Themalright Heatsink SK6.
Soyo K7V Dragon+ KT266A
Crucial 256 MB DDR PC2100 (ub cas 2.5)
Creative 3D blaster annihilator Geforce2 GTS 32mo.
Enermax PSU 431 Watts
IBM 60GXP 60gig.
Seagate 13gig.
Creative Live! value 1024.
Mitsubishi Diamond pro 710 17'
Logitech Mouseman Dual optical
TDK Cyclone 24/10/40B
Pioneer 114 DVD 10X.

 

[CoDerEd]

Motherboard Monitor

It's free and your temps are good, no worries.

 

[CoDerEd]

System temp : case or mobo temps, it's basically depend of how good is airflow on your case
and also it depends on your room temp

CPU temp : like it said, CPU temp, it'r not really depend but affected from case temp also,
if it's getting hotter and so your CPU tempt, the differnce usually around 10C-15C[CPU temp is higher]

CPU-load temp: CPU tempt on its hard working day, say you've been playing game or do a multitask program.

 

[Jik47]

Thanks guys for the wonderful posts back to me. Oliver yours were was very good and Yes I am new at this system rigging. I have an Enlight 7237 case and it has a case fan on it along with that fair size Cooler Master on the CPU I thought that would be enought. And yes I did put thermal paste between the processor and the CPU. Bought the paste at Radio Shack. But you have educated me somewhat today and for that I " Thank You." As they say " Knowledge is Power" and right now I am somewhat low on power. I don't have enough units to mess with or the budget right now to build more. A friend or mine builds some units and I get to work with him some doing. I have learned about the quality of items from another friend that reads Anandtech all the time so when I need something I usually ask him. So this has been my learning curve, but I have learned some and gotten some information from posting on Anandtech myself. And for this knowledge I am truly appreciative. I am also thankful for other two that posted after Oliver especially the one that said my temps are fine.Thanks guys for helping me out. I now know I need to increase my air flow to lower my temps some. But since they are alright now, I am letting things alone. Thanks again for all the good information for me and I do appreciate it.