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New CPU Fan? Ornaw?

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October 10, 2014 8:52:36 PM

So recently I've been seeing temps a little bit out of my comfort zone when playing games (high 40s-50s) (mind you, this is a stock-clocked cpu) and I thought it was time for a new cpu cooler. I downloaded prime95 and the results were after 3 hrs.
[Fri Oct 10 17:32:02 2014]
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Compare your results to other computers at http://www.mersenne.org/report_benchmarks
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz
CPU speed: 2992.33 MHz, 2 cores
CPU features: Prefetch, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 32 KB
L2 cache size: 4 MB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 64 bytes
TLBS: 256
Prime95 32-bit version 28.5, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 15.109 ms., avg: 15.992 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 19.834 ms., avg: 20.457 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 24.246 ms., avg: 24.907 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 29.078 ms., avg: 30.005 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 32.302 ms., avg: 33.751 ms.


And the temp never went above about 58C. This is an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 at 3.0ghz on a stock dell cooler. Is the stock dell cooler fine? should i actually worry about temps?

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October 10, 2014 10:00:15 PM

Those are NOT high temperatures. The "Tcase" is 72degC. I'm not sure exactly when the CPU starts throttling to prevent overheating but it would be near that temperature.

A new cooler will mainly just benefit you with much lower noise (assuming you setup the fan profile properly).

*If you do get a new cooler make sure it has a 3-pin fan (so NOT a PWM fan) if your motherboard has a 3-pin CPU fan header which I would guess it does.
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