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March 7th, 2008 14:00
Core temp monitoring program
I rarely use temperature monitoring programs but after reading several threads decided to try one.
My question is this: My son was playing on his Q6600 desktop and was playing BF2 for about 2 hours. I had him install the program CORETEMP which I read about on these forums. This was right after exiting the game.
He installed the program and it displayed the temp of the four cores. They read 31C, 31C, 26C and 28C. Now my question is I think these numbers are very very good especially since he'd been playing for a while...but I am not 100% sure as I don't know the way it works.
Do cores heat up and cool quickly? Will the cores temp rise significantly while gaming, or is that just the video card temp that rises? If the program is reading those temps after several hours of gaming, is that an accurate indication of the temps? Also, is there anything you can do anyway if the temps were much higher.
My question is this: My son was playing on his Q6600 desktop and was playing BF2 for about 2 hours. I had him install the program CORETEMP which I read about on these forums. This was right after exiting the game.
He installed the program and it displayed the temp of the four cores. They read 31C, 31C, 26C and 28C. Now my question is I think these numbers are very very good especially since he'd been playing for a while...but I am not 100% sure as I don't know the way it works.
Do cores heat up and cool quickly? Will the cores temp rise significantly while gaming, or is that just the video card temp that rises? If the program is reading those temps after several hours of gaming, is that an accurate indication of the temps? Also, is there anything you can do anyway if the temps were much higher.
Message Edited by eskymi on 03-07-2008 11:56 AM
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ty_ger
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March 7th, 2008 15:00
Those temperatures are perfectly normal and are no cause for alarm.
The cores do tend to heat up and cool rapidly so running a windowed application which you can load your CPU up with and monitor the temps at the same time is recommended.
I would not be too alarmed though. With those idle temperatures, temperatures under load are probably acceptable as well.
EDIT: If you don't hear your CPU fan speed up significantly while gaming, your CPU temp is probably running fine under load as well.
eskymi
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March 7th, 2008 15:00
I have used many tools to check my pcs, but I always have to ask as I can never seem to figure out what the stuff means. I used CPU-Z and had to have someone explain why my 800mhz ram was only showing 400mhz....but now I know.
What I told my son to do was leave the program running as it checks temps every second and logs it. I said just play your games do whatever and I'll check the log later this afternoon.
As for the fans, they hum along, there is a slight increase in speed when doing gaming, but if you are not specifically listening to it, you can't hear it at all. My Compaq when it started working heavy you could easily tell as the fan sounded like an airplane engine winding up.
EDIT: I just talked to my son, he was playing BF2, Guitar Hero III and running other stuff. He was using it for about 1 1/2 hours. The highest a core got was core 0 temp reached 40C for a short time, but all other readings were 35C or less. So that seems good to me. My laptop hits about 40C just idling.