Hmm, man i havent been up to date with overclocking, but isnt 40C like 100F. That seems way to hot. Reason i ask is cause i just set up a 1700 xp on soyo dragon+ with a volacano 6cu+, and i get about 40C with no case fans installed. I thought i messed up on thermal paste thingy part, was about to order the artic silver stuff and redo it. But from reading this post, my readings seem to be normal. I know the temperature moniter is not accurate but 40C(100F) seems Really dam hot. Last computer i overclocked was a celeron 300a to 450, and that thing was below 90F at full load, with no cpu fan(lots of case fans tho) And all of you arent worried about the 100F plus temps. Did i miss something here, are they making very heat resistant cpu nowdays, or is it cause computer prices are so cheap that people dont care if there cpu dies faster. Or is it the fact that the temperature readings are off by 10-20 degrees. Regardless, i'm just wondering given that my celeron gave out below 90F way back when with the same inaccurate monitoring, why arent u peps worried.
Hehe well actually thinking about it, the celeron temperates might have been not been cpu temperatures, but i think the abit that i had, had cpu temperature in bios.
Well I just want to know what is a safe range. I dont want to overclock, cause its already dam fast, and i aint compiling zillion line codes, so 1.5, 1.6, 1.7mhz same crap in my book.
P.S. Is it me, or is there like too many dam fans on your computer, geforce has a fan, motherboard fan to cool something forgot what, cpufan. Man i think this sucker is going to suck up lots of electricy, thank god theres no energy crisis.