How are my temps?

[dc200]

I've got an Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 (1x 92mm fan) cooling a Core i7 2600 @ 3.4GHz. Temperatures are in Celsius.

Idle:
--core1: 27
--core2: 34
--core3: 30
--core4: 27

Prime95:
--core1: 50
--core2: 56
--core3: 53
--core4: 50

I only ran Prime95 for about an hour (in-place large FFTs, max heat/power). Does everything look fine? This is my first build by the way.

 

[nukemaster]

Your temps are fine. Temps when doing all other activities even the most demanding games will still be lower then prime95

 

[manofchalk]

Very nice temps actually, its all good.
What was room temperature? Because that is very good for low end air cooling.

 

[bearclaw99]

They're fine. As long as you're under 75 C or so on Prime 95 there's no reason for any concern

 

[Sakkura]

Below 60C means you almost have too much cooling going on (could set the fan to run a little slower, giving you a little higher temps but less noise).

 

[dc200]

Very nice temps actually, its all good.
What was room temperature? Because that is very good for low end air cooling.

Room temperature is average at around 21-22C. My case has two 230mm fans running at full speed right now, so that's probably why CPU temps are so low. I'm going to install a fan controller tomorrow and try running them at 50% speed instead.

 

[Derza10]

why not just OC to like 4-4.5 GHz?

 

[manofchalk]

Average is a subjective term, you could live in London (which is currently in Winter) for all I know. Guessing ~30c?
The fan controller is a good move, don't connect the CPU fan to it though.

EDIT: So cold.
Damn, kinda disappointed in my cooling now. $200 watercooling kit and a 10c difference under load at roughly the same ambient temps. Though admittedly my chip is overclocked.

 

[dc200]

I edited my post with my actual room temps while you were typing that up.

why not just OC to like 4-4.5 GHz?

I'm running two Radeon 6870's and my PSU is only 750W (Corsair AX). I don't really need OCing right now and don't want to push the PSU to its limits.

 

[dc200]

Best answer selected by dc200.

 

[nukemaster]

Just so you know, you will top out the chip before running out of power with that power supply