Give out your CPU stats.
Temp.
Speed of CPU from factery.
Speed when overclocking "if any".
What brand and model of CPU heatsink or water cooling.
What size is your case.
How many fans all together.
What abeint temp it is inside if you can and outside the case.
And what work BOINC is working on at the time "give BOINC at least 5 minutes to work on befor giving out temp".

This will help people that want to use BOINC and to see if ther computer won't over heat and to see if ther computer is cooling right while they leave it run day and night.

Just installed a CoolerMaster Aquagate Viva kit with the radiator block hanging off the case out-side at 90 degrees for best airflow. The nice part was that the original fan with pipe could be put back on top of the cooling block, so room temp air is blasted in addition from outside the case directly over the block and on the surroundings of the CPU. Dropped the operating Core Temp from 57C of pure air cooling to 47C overall at 100% load with Speedfan keeping it running at steady fluster mode of 1500 revs (set this min.). No overclocking as the ready to run box has no overclocking features to jack up the Q6600 Step 7 b3 kentfield. The watercooling kit used 4 watts only. Looking forward to the summer to see the performance and how much the fans will be revved up. Ambient is 21C in Winter and Airco'd 24C in summer. Temps are as of now 100 hours none stop crunching.

New users should just check the CPU specs and get Speedfan and CoreTemp for real-time temp read out. My P4 been running at 67-69C constantly for years and has no issue (it's a SFF system). All Windows.

NB obscure is how different the reviews came out on the coolermasterkit. It's cheap, simple to install and even fits in a HD bay or a PCI slot, but chose for putting it outside for best cooling effect and reduction of overall case temp and easy cleaning access of the radiator.
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Coelum Non Animum Mutant, Qui Trans Mare Currunt

It depends on the CPU. Some people may have some temperature all the time while for other types of CPU that would be overheating. My old Pentium IV was at 70C, with 75C being the limit. Yet I see people with 80C as a normal temperature; that's because it *is* a normal temperature for their CPUs.

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I run my 8 computers 24/7 crunching 100%.

The highest temp is 53C on my AthlonXP3000+, as I think the copper ThermalTake HS&F may not be seated quite square atm. All of the others run at sub 50C on standard air. I worry at 50C+ and take action at 55C without delay.

Sekerob and particularly Nicolas must either be getting bad temperature readings or be the luckiest people on earth. 'cause the critical temp for a P4 is 69C and it's all over when that gets passed. I can't imagine them not shutting down at those temps guys. Most accurate temperature readings, for Intel chipsets only, are found in the TAT program available for download from Microsoft. It gives real time temps in 0.1 Deg increments and loads your system even harder than BOINC!

Hottest thing here, no she's not looking, is an old ASUS MoBo, running an OC'd CeleronD. The CPU runs nice and cool but the MoBo will boil the kettle for the nice cuppa tea one needs, to settle the nerves, while awaiting the inevitable disaster...

Cheers.

Sekerob and particularly Nicolas must either be getting bad temperature readings or be the luckiest people on earth. 'cause the critical temp for a P4 is 69C and it's all over when that gets passed. I can't imagine them not shutting down at those temps guys. Most accurate temperature readings, for Intel chipsets only, are found in the TAT program available for download from Microsoft. It gives real time temps in 0.1 Deg increments and loads your system even harder than BOINC!

• AMD Athlon64 6000+ on ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
  
• 48°C from both ASUS Probe and Speedfan
  
• 3000 MHz o/c'ed to 3150 MHz
  
• Zalman CNPS 9500 AM2 with Arctic Silver 5
  
• Xion Onyx XON301 case with green led
  
• 2-120mm Zalman ZM-F3 fans, 1-140mm XION green led fan, 120 mm PSU fan
  
• 33°C in case, 23°C outside case
  
• Projects = WCG (HCC, FAAH, HPF2, DDDT), Rosetta, CPDN, Malaria, SIMAP, Proteins
  

Speedfan and Core Temp, the generally accepted readers of CPU and other component temps show identical. Recently speedfan changed as it always read lower on coretemp. Lucky or not, the P4 has been crunching none stop for 3 years now and showing 67C momentarily. The internal BIOS default to even get the fans to kick in gradually with SmartGuardian is 72C, but am overriding this. Suppose the manufacturers have it all wrong.... Heard it many times I was born under a particular star :D

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Coelum Non Animum Mutant, Qui Trans Mare Currunt

After more than a half year of continuous crunching, my C2D T7200 notebook's cooler has been more and more dusty, the temperatures tried to rise past 85°C if I did not keep the frequency low, and in spite of pretty loud fan. I think the highest temps I've seen were just under 89ºC, but usually my RMClock did not allow it (I've set frequency throttling at 85°C). It helped a bit to occasionally blow powerfully through the cooler ribs from outside (with closed eyes and nose ;x), but just for a short time (few weeks).

After opening the case, removing few larger dust clumps from the ribs and cleaning the ribs with tiny inter-tooth brush, the temperature under full load now stays under 65ºC, on the second fan speed stage. (I wonder for how long.) (Well, can't compare the tiny fan with huge desktop cooling systems :-)

Peter

Hi,

my Q6600 runs at < 45° at default freq 2,4 GHz. I've a cheap but good Thermaltake water cooling system. I use this cpu since a few days. Before I had a E6600. It runs at max 47° overclocked at 3,2 GHz instead 2,4 GHz default. I wanted to increase the frequency but at 3,3 GHz were errors at prime95. I think my power supply its not the very best. The vcore degreases significant when I use the cpu fully loaded.

The temps of the new quadcore are not very good. I dont know why. The cooling system is the same than before. I ve to check it somewhen in the next days.

Buts its nothing: I had a pentium 4 3,4 GHz in a ready build computer from a (super)market. It climbs up to 86° C. I bought a new cooling device. It degreased to 65° C.

Maybe the Q6600 is higher temperated than the E6600. It takes 95 w instead of 65 w at full load.

While the oc-test of the E6600 I saw, that I had under BOINC 1°-2° C more than with prime95. Both run for hours when I'm checking the temps. Did anyone saw something similar?

cosmicfate

edit: something about my case: economy classe office case. Only one case fan, and one on the graphics device.

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07
SMC Version: 1.16f8
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

CPU 178F (81.1C)
Fan 1 5352 RPM
Fan 2 5356 RPM

Einstein@Home
SETI@home

This system runs 7X24 98% of the time.