what's your max acceptable case temp?

[her34]

at what point will you be content with the cooling in your case?

and what's your room temp?

 

[Mrvile]

My case temp must stay under 23 at all times for me to be happy. Usually around 21 though.

 

[Thor86]

Anything over 40 would be too high imho.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Useful question. I am obviously content at the moment with 26C or 5C above room, which is now 21C of 70F. The lower the better. But my ownly source of measurement at the moment is my motherboard temp -- no thermal sensor on the case panel. It may be closer to 23.

Someone is either having a cold day or has a superb cooling solution at 23C.

The lower the better! At 70F, my idle CPU is in the 80 to 82F range, and at extreme load the CPU temp never goes above 104F -- at the over-clock setting below and the above room value:
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'95 Gateway2000 full-tower mod
P4P800-standard ASUS mobo
P4-C 3.0@3.6
OCZ EL Gold DDR500 -- 2.5, 4, 4, 6 @ DDR480
ASUS V9980 FX5950 Ultra 256
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS
dual Hitachi 7K250 SATA150 in RAID0
Sony DRU700A burner
ALLIED AL-B500E PSU
ThermalRight XP120 hs with YS-Tech 120x38mm fan and Ultra screen filter

 

[11427]

I dunno,.... my case temps are usually around 20C, but its only about 66 F. down here in my basement. Then again most people have alot of stuff packed into their case. I only have a 1 vid card, 1 modem, 1 hdd, 1 fdd, 1 CD-ROM spead out in a large tower with 5 fans.

 

[akira34]

As long as the mobo temp reading comes in at under 45-50C I'm fine... I typically get anything from a 0-10C difference between the mobo and CPU temp readings, which means I'm fine either way... I've not, yet, installed the SLK-948U cooler onto my processor... I hope to get to it in the next couple of weeks, or at least this year. I have it, and a nice 92mm fan to go onto the processor... Just need to get around to it.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I'd say that's about right for the mobo-CPU temperature spread. Before I switched to a 3.0C P-4 processor, my 2.4C was 2F or about 1C LOWER than my mobo value at a 3.0 Ghz over-clock. Figure that -- really -- the mobo value is going to be higher than the interior case air temperature.

 

[BW86]

Anything over 35 makes me angry

 

[Big Lar]

I don't allow mine over 26c

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I'm usually hitting ~38-43C in my case ambient right now is around 70F I usually keep it 70F or above.