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[Bishop Steiner]

"I call ******** on your temps though... your room has to literally be near freezing if your cpu is running at 17° idle...on a stock fan. No residential AC unit in the world gets air that cold without freezing over. Our plant only chills down to 12°C before it's mixed with return air.

[Edit:] Grammar. "

Lol. Yes. Sure. My baiting people. Whatever, Shamwow.

[Antaumus]

Remember cpu temp means nothing unless you post ambient, delta is more important in determining your cooling performance. If your cpu is 40c and mine is at 50c that means nothing as I could have an ambient of 40 you 20 so your delta is 20 mine is 10. Amd x6 at 4ghz I have 13c delta on water. So 20 ambient would be 33cpu, 30 would be 43 and so on so as long as it doesn't get over 60c ambient I'm fine I don't know if delta remains the same at every temp range but from about 5c-35c is seems to stay at ~13 delta, maybe someone schooled in physics could confirm/deny that. Also I don't know if water and air cooling differs too in how they handle different temps but still post your ambient or your cpu temp means nothing.

[Tabrin]

You called me shamwow, lulz.

When posting "FX-6200 CPU running 17°C on stock fan haha gaiz is this good?" you should probably make note of the fact that your case is directly cooled by a 20,000+ BTU A/C unit instead of getting angry when people say your numbers are wrong for joecoolguy in an average house with an average ambient temperature.

[Bishop Steiner]

Tabrin, on 26 August 2012 - 02:21 PM, said:

You called me shamwow, lulz.

When posting "FX-6200 CPU running 17°C on stock fan haha gaiz is this good?" you should probably make note of the fact that your case is directly cooled by a 20,000+ BTU A/C unit instead of getting angry when people say your numbers are wrong for joecoolguy in an average house with an average ambient temperature.

OR......

Maybe you can ask for details before calling BS? As for angry, not at all, just find it funny I have to go on the defensive, because everyone seems to go on the offensive on the Internet instead of asking questions. I didn't list all the details. My bad. Not the end of the world. Did not know at the time they were all relevant. Maybe you missed the part of the post where I point out I am NEW at this stuff?

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 26 August 2012 - 02:26 PM.

[Tabrin]

....*facepalm*

[Deadeye Flint]

40°C... OMG that is definitely to much. It melts your Motherboard and your PC Case until its just a heap of glowing scrap

[Tabrin]

Deadeye Flint, on 27 August 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

40°C... OMG that is definitely to much. It melts your Motherboard and your PC Case until its just a heap of glowing scrap

My laptop is 56+ under load.

[SakuranoSenshi]

Tabrin, on 27 August 2012 - 08:12 AM, said:

My laptop is 56+ under load.

I shudder to think what mine gets to... but there's a reason the case is aluminium and half the body is vents and fans, heh!

[Catamount]

My laptop GPU only gets to about 70 at full load, but the CPU can easily hit 80 under real-world loads and 90 in Prime95

[SakuranoSenshi]

I have an M18X with a crossfire setup, so it can get quite hot if I play certain things all afternoon/evening. I have no concerns about heat, though, so I've never actually bothered to monitor it.

I used to be very much into tweaking my setup and overclocking everything I could but that was back in the nineties / early 2000s, now I really just don't care; I buy the spec I will be happy with and beyond making sure the trained monkeys who assembled it actually did what they should have done (BIOS settings, proper drivers, etc) I don't mess with it. I've been pretty happy with this one, though they didn't properly tuck some cable in (to the screen) which makes the one hinge tend to pop up, I just have not gotten around to sorting it (considered moaning but figured they'd either want it sent in or send some random IT wannabe to come and do and risk really breaking something).

Edited by SakuranoSenshi, 27 August 2012 - 11:57 AM.

[Catamount]

Aren't Alienware machines made by Clevo? Or am I remembering that wrong? Mine's just an Asus and just has a 5730M and cooling that (it's like 20-25W) is really easy, but the i7-720QM puts off a lot of heat, about as much as the cooling system can reasonably handle. Still, it's lived through about 2.5 years of hard daily gaming (WoT, Civ5, Crysis/MWLL, etc), so I can hardly complain.

Edited by Catamount, 27 August 2012 - 12:40 PM.

[SakuranoSenshi]

I have a newer i7, as you'd expect. The 2670QM as it happens (I could have paid more but I honestly don't think CPU matters very much at all, beyond a certain point and I say that as someone who used to run compilation marathons). I don't think it generally runs very hot but it's not cool, either.

[StUffz]

If my PC runs between 60° and 70° C during gameplay, should I consider to change the CPU cooler? Currently I am using a Corsair H50.

[Deadeye Flint]

StUffz, on 27 August 2012 - 01:34 PM, said:

If my PC runs between 60° and 70° C during gameplay, should I consider to change the CPU cooler? Currently I am using a Corsair H50.

Save your money! 60-70°C are totally fine during gameplay.

[Quinn Allard]

Im peaking around 55c after a few hrs. Air cooled.

FX8150 @ 4.5ghz
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
Sapphire 6950 2GB DiRT3
16GB DDR3 1600mhz
Xclio Windtunnel with a few extra fans

Edited by Quinn Allard, 30 August 2012 - 04:58 PM.