CPU Temps - Intel Prescott 3.0 ?

Question

Performance in gaming, I'll now go to AMD, but what's done is done. My PC is a littl eover 2 years old now and yeah. I have a 3.0 Prescott with 4 10k rpm drives, 2 gigs of OCZ and an ATI x850xt. While gaming, fps and mmorpg's, my temps never cruise past the high 50's -- 58c ish... When I play Guild Wars, the temps jump up to 68c. I have my motherboard monitor warning hit me @ 70c.

I clean my cpu off and apply new artic silver about once a year. All my games temps are fine for what I have, but GW's runs a bit hot.

I have a Thermaltake Xaser something with a Zalman fan. I have to open the front door to keep my cpu cooler during GW...

Is this normal? What's the avg operation temps for the prescott and what's your personal averages with any cpu.


Thanks

My avg. room temp is 65-68 F -=- My CPU idle temp is around 49c.


Thanks

Answer 1

Well, first I'm going to ask what the room temperature is because if you are cooling with air that will have a huge bearing on what the temperature of the CPU is. However, as a general rule, anything above 50C is unacceptable at room temperature (24C). I have water cooling on my Athlon 64x2 3800+ and it runs at 43C. Obviously, I felt the temperatures with air cooling were too warm and I honestly couldn't tell you what they were at this point. But, if your room is warmer than 24C, results will vary but 68C, 70C and anything above that is far far too warm.

Answer 2

Amd isn't any better, my Motherboard monitor thing is constantly popping up telling me it is over 70 and I can't work out what to do either. Applying cooling gel regulary is good (as you said). Infact our situation is worse 'cos we don't do any gaming at all! Goes up too 80 + when printing; and we have no idea what else to do. Good luck.

Answer 3

Sounds like you need a water cooled processor heat sink. neat contraptions.