Temps.. IDLE? FULL LOAD?

[bjc112]

i ahve been reading a bunch of these threads lately but.. you guys talk about the temperatures i idle.. which i know you can check at start up???.. right? and you talk about full load.. well.. how do you check temperatures under full load??? thanks for any advice

 

[KouklatheCat]

Try running Prime 95 or playing Quake 3, Halflife or Unreal Tournament for about 60 to 90 minutes. This should give you a good idea of load temps.

 

[titanone31]

enermax temperature monitor ( same a a compu-nurse) except 2 modules

 

[bacillus]

<< how do you check temperatures under full load??? >>


you'll need software monitoring from within windows. the most accurate temperatures are taken from a diode in the cpu core with intel cpus but your m/board has to support it.

 

[jawaki]

For full load readings I run &quot;fish&quot; screensaver or defrag my D drive and encode an MP3 ...I would get upto 38-39 C with that as opposed to 36 for running Quake III.
I never understood the descerepency but wonder if the video card does most of the work in Quake as opposed to the cpu.

 

[PieDerro]

RC5 and SETI are the big temperature-raisers. Running RC5 for an hour will raise my fl temp about 4C above Q3A demo looping for an hour. It uses more of the CPU I think...

 

[jhites]

Still would rather run Prime95 Torture Test for 8-10 hours. Gives me higher temps than RC5 and really burns in the chip. Prime95 can usually catch things that other programs can't catch like stability test errors.

 

[bjc112]

thanks

 

[arod324]

Yeah, QuakeIII is not very processor dependent. It is A LOT cooler after run quake compared to seti@home or something. However, QuakeIII is a great video card benchmarking/testing program.

 

[GT1999]

A great combo is to run Distributed.net's RC5 client in the background while running Quake3 (torture demo). Then run Prime95. If you want, I would also recommend 3DMark 2000, but it is not the best, for many, many reasons. Don't trust the benchmarks and it isn't always stable.