My 8400 has been idling anywhere from 45C - 50C, which I have been a little worried about, but not too much as I don't overclock really at all.
Today I ran SP2004 with both CoreTemp and Speedfan running. Speedfan reported the temp rising up to a max of 63C after about 3 minutes, while CoreTemp showed an increase in temp up to 55C and said that the cores were only recieving about 20 - 50% load (was bouncing around). This was not the case with speedfan which showed a constant 100% load on both cores throughout. Is this the jankyness of inaccurate readouts on new C2D's?
Using Stock HSF, maybe an upgrade is in order? Any suggestions welcome!
Edit: Forgot to mention, once I stopped SP2004, the temps reduced back to 50C within 2 seconds, and I started the program back up again, with the same constant heat increase taking place after only this 20 second delay.
Today I ran SP2004 with both CoreTemp and Speedfan running. Speedfan reported the temp rising up to a max of 63C after about 3 minutes, while CoreTemp showed an increase in temp up to 55C and said that the cores were only recieving about 20 - 50% load (was bouncing around). This was not the case with speedfan which showed a constant 100% load on both cores throughout. Is this the jankyness of inaccurate readouts on new C2D's?
Using Stock HSF, maybe an upgrade is in order? Any suggestions welcome!
Edit: Forgot to mention, once I stopped SP2004, the temps reduced back to 50C within 2 seconds, and I started the program back up again, with the same constant heat increase taking place after only this 20 second delay.