Monitor and CCC. 1) Boot system - Idles at 86c 2) Run Wow - Plays at 89c 3) Quit WoW - Idles at 86c 4) Run Age of Conan - Plays at 91c 5) Quit Age of Conan - Idles at 64c !!!!!!! 6) Run Wow - Plays at 66c 7) Quit WoW - Idles at 63c 8) Run Age of Conan...

interested. Odd enough, Im bringing up this thread because I had my computer idling at stock speeds for sometime, I decided to get back into overclocking it and now when Ive come back to put in the same settings Im idling at 40C and when overclocked at 19x200...

mind is saying temperature. I grabbed EVGA prcecision to see my temperatures and both cores were about 55C on idle and this was at about 25% fan speed, when I force 100% fan it idles at around 43C. Any ideas?. I just recently completed the build of my new computer....

my computer and now she idles at 34c that just shows you how bad the stock cooler is. I will get some loaded temps later tonight. Here are a couple of pics. . I bought a Thermaltake DuOrb for my very hot 8800GT (idled at 50c) It fit very...

reall going as low as 2.4 ? Yes the speed is really going to 2.4Ghz. This is called intel speed step and it is enabled in your bios to save energy. You can disable it if you like. All it does is drop the multiplier when the computer is idle. Yeah, disable speed...

Persistent Heat Issue. Core i7 920, stock HSF, stock speeds. My computer was idling at 45C and loading at 82C. So I opened it up, vacuumed out all the dust, and replaced the thermal paste with perfectly-applied Arctic Silver 5. Then I chilled my room and...

time i applied the artic silver cooler and spread it with a tooth pick on top of the cpu. i spread the gel around the center, yet leaving space on the edeges. The good news is that now the computer idles at 49-50C and when i tested it with prime95, temp went...

drops even while the computer is idle) The room temp is also the same as it was 6 months ago.. speed of the computer is still the same.. so Maybe there dust building up and the fan is working harder keep the cpu cool. Open up the computer and with...

year warranty. I don't agree. The purpose of a desktop computer and the purpose of a server are very different. In many situation servers will constantly run and run and run 24\7, never idling. The purpose of the desktop computer is to serve a single...