First computer build, oddly high i5-760 temperatures help!

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I just finished putting together my first computer last night. Never done it before, and when I started up for the first time and went into bios the bios is showing my CPU temperatures starting at 45 degrees and climbing up to about 50 degrees. This is in bios!

I am worried that these temperatures are not acceptable as when the processor is in BIOS it should be idling right? I have not done any overclocking yet!

System specs:
Case - Coolermaster storm sniper (All stock fans)
Motherboard - Asus p7p55d-e pro
CPU - Intel core i5-760 (Stock cooler)
Memory - 4gb 1600mhz
Graphics card - evga gtx 470 SC
PSU - 750w corsair
hard drive - 64gb SSD crucial

Any help would be appreciated.

I already took the stock heat sink off and I tried putting thermal past on again after cleaning, maybe i'm doing that wrong?

The air inside the case feels very very cold with all the case fans running?

Reply to rakevinwr

I have all the fans hooked to the cases "dial up fan speed" and i have the knob cranked to 100% the only fan not on that mode is the stock coolers fan.

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Ambient Temperature?
And what do u mean by cool?
Where I live, I consider 20C cold, and 30++c cool.......
Try using HWmonitor from CPUID, it's free

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greghome wrote :

Ambient Temperature?
And what do u mean by cool?
Where I live, I consider 20C cold, and 30++c cool.......
Try using HWmonitor from CPUID, it's free

Ambient temp 25
In the case 27

I'll have to give that a try when I get home, but this is very abnormal?

Reply to rakevinwr

50C idle? a bit....check load, it's the most important.
as long as it doesn't pass the magic 70c Mark, u should be safe

I just ordered a 212 plus also I want to get it idling around 30 and does prime95 display CPU temp?

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TBH, I don't really have experiences with that software, but if it doesn't just use HWmonitor to monitor the temperature, and also re-check ur stock heatsink.
Feels odd since my ancient pentium 4 at 3ghz barely touches 50C at idle here in the tropics with ambient around 34C in the day

I'm wondering if this I'd caused by a hardware defect and if I should RMA the item back to newegg?

I dont know how Long you have before you can't anymore with them

The system boots fine so maybe that's unlikely?

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Temperatures at load?
Like I said before, check it with Prime 95 or some CPU heavy games, If it doesn't surpass 70Celcius, it's safe.

Well I installed 64 bit windows reset my bios settings and it switched everything to "auto" and power step on all that now my CPU Is idling as low as 33 and occasionally hitting 60 under load.

I also switched storage configuration to ahci cause I was told this was faster for ssd? Except in 32 bit my windows experience was at a 7.8 now it's at 7.4 for hard drive?

I noticed using asus's probe that my vcore goes up and down almost directly related to temperature so is there any negative reason not do this since I won't over clock until I get my after market cooler anyway?

Another thing: the memory is only operating at 1333 even though it's 1600 now. Thanks for all the help!

Reply to rakevinwr

Temperatures are ok like that, 33C idle,60c load
I don;t own a SSD, so don't ask me

Also, Windows Experience is nothing, I can get a score of 1 if I coupled an old Pentium 4 no HT with a GTX580 :lol:

About ur RAM, are they installed in both channels?

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Message edited by greghome on 12-01-2010 at 04:33:01 PM

greghome wrote :

Temperatures are ok like that, 33C idle,60c load
I don;t own a SSD, so don't ask me

Also, Windows Experience is nothing, I can get a score of 1 if I coupled an old Pentium 4 no HT with a GTX580 :lol:

About ur RAM, are they installed in both channels?

Sorry for sounding like such a noob but what do you mean in both channels?

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rakevinwr wrote :

Sorry for sounding like such a noob but what do you mean in both channels?

The LGA1156 mobo should have dual channel memory, 4 slots.

IF you inserted it like this, it's running one channel

If you inserted it like this, it's running dual channel

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