Tempuratures

[Mike-KT]

I changed the airflow going through my comp and that got me interested about my temperatures.

My old Athalon 2400+ is at 49 degrees with about 20% load right now

Earlier today I was rar'ing a file for about an hour and a half (it was a big file on a slow cpu) and that was using all my cpu. Temperature? 49 degrees.

After that finished I let the computer sit for a while as i was studying, and the temperature was 49%

So load doesn't have any impact on my cpu it seems, is that normal? If it isn't, I'm thinking my heatsink setup (stock) is doing a poor job.

I'm hoping to O'C this a bit this summer, so i'm trying to figure out what's going on now.

[ORION]

It's not that strange, it pretty much means that your CPU fan sucks but your heatsink is ok, because the heatsink is absorbing a large amount of heat but not getting rid of it terribly fast. I think.

[WiseGuy]

My cpu is overclocked 33%, 600Mhz and it reads out 46 idle and maxes at 53 while under load. By load i mean 2-3 hours of Counter Strike.

Mike we'll do some nice airflow analysis and cooling mod's when i get back to res in 2 weeks.

[Mike-KT]

Correction: After playing STALKER and CSS for a while, I hit 53 under load.

[WiseGuy]

lol the magic number... 53

[ORION]

I thought the magic number was 5 or 7?

[WiseGuy]

42..?