What are your Athlon64 temps? Mine seem high.

wakedog102

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Mine seem to idle at 40C w/o Cool'n Quite on.
With Cool'n Quite they are 30C.

I have an Antec Sonata case which has a powersupply with only one fan. For a little while had a different powersupply with a fan that sucked air up from the case right above the processor. I think I noticed that the temps were down to around 30C w/o Cool'n Quite enabled. Put the original power supply back in and they seemed stable at 30 for a day or so, and then went back up to 40 pretty quickly. Could that much of a difference be made by the powersupply's extra fan?

What are your temps with Cool'n Quite on and off?
BTW, I'm running a stock heatsink.

Kind of bummed because all the review sites post the stock temp at around 32 or so, so I'm not sure what is making mine so high, unless they all have Cool'n Quite enabled and aren't reporting it.

Thanks,
Nate
 

wakedog102

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Maybe I'm wrong... Hey I HOPE I'm wrong. Tell me, I've never owned a CPU that told me the operating temp.
 

Imdmn04

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That aint high, thats pretty normal for a stock a64 fan.

high is anything>55C
anything over this point, u might start seeing random reboots.

but 40c is perfectly alright.
 

Markfw

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What is the ambient temperature ? Right now it is 68F in my house, and the motherboard temperature is 30C, and the CPU is almost idle and at 33C. But I have a thermaltake silent boost K8. So with a stock fan, and the ambient temperature a little higher, that is perfectly normal. Even if it was high, you don;t have to worry until it hits 70C. I would worry if mine got over 55C as mentioned here, but it wouldn;t start to self destruct until about 70C.
 

Maximilian

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Mines at 40 right now idle and 40 is fine as i know this guy who said he had his cpu at 56*C idle and its stable. My hdd's are actually far hotter at 51-52 idle :( But your temps seem fine, only worry if it goes above 55 or 60 even if that did happen most things shut themselves off at 65*C so alls fine.
 

PaxVitae

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Mine's at 39-42 in idea with cool n quite and I always use it! When doing tests with Divx it goes upto 53 which is the max its hit in a 6 hour session of encoding.

My Case has two fans one at the front and one at the back. I have space to add a second at the back, how effective is adding extra case fans to lowering the Case temp???
 

jdogg707

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With Quiet n' Cool disabled on my MSI K8T Neo-FISR2/Antec SLK3700-BQE (2x120mm Fans)/Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu my temps are 30C Case and 32C Chip @ idle, at load my temps are 33C and 42C. That's running with my 3200+ running at 2.21GHZ at stock voltage.
 

PaxVitae

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What type of heatsink you running with jdogg707??? I've got the normal stock one but was thinking about an upgrade if I know I could get about 7-10 degree improvment
 

Pistolero

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Just surfing the web, I'm at 37C, when I play games for an hour it goes to 51C using stock fan. Stability is perfect, never have to restart unless some software requires me to.
 

jdogg707

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Originally posted by: PaxVitae
What type of heatsink you running with jdogg707??? I've got the normal stock one but was thinking about an upgrade if I know I could get about 7-10 degree improvment

As stated I have the Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu. It's a great heatsink, very quiet, and keeps the chip nice and cool.
 

NokiaDude

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30C Idle w/ CPU Disconnect, 35-40C w/o CPU Disconnect, AMD Barton 2500+, Thermaltake Silent Boost. It looks like someone knows how to apply thermal grease! :D
 

mrweirdo

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The athlon fx comps i built awhile ago idel at around 48C - 50 C using aopen h600b with stocks exhaust fan and aopen 400 watt psu.