system and cpu temps.

[Stryker]

go online and lookup and download "Mother Board Monitor 5".  Then see what it says about your temps.  OR dust off that never used CD of drivers that came with your motherboard and see if its got its own windows temp and fan RPM monitor.

Second..... how do you turn up a Zalman flower?  its fanless.

[DogMeat]

Second..... how do you turn up a Zalman flower? its fanless.

...apart from the fan that comes with it, obviously.  

File under "Kettles, black", cross-reference with "Pots, black". :stupid:

[sheepy]

doorman as ur using intel u should b ok as they tend to b cooler than amd [i think]. without looking at your case i think u may b helped with more case cooling. as the flower's depend on a coolish case dont they? tealeaf may know more.couldnt hurt to put in a couple of fans. its not going to cost u more than fifteen quid and u may need it for lans etc.

stryker i think he meens that he has the fan bloking on to the zelman turned up to full.

[Doorman]

go online and lookup and download "Mother Board Monitor 5". Then see what it says about your temps.

I did just that and now I'm really scared!
I followed the instructions as well as I could and ended up with 4 sets of numbers in the task bar. They read from L to R 35(black) 70(red) 58(blue) and 0(maroon) these started out a degree or two higher than than so I removed the side of the pc and directed a household type fan at it. From what you guys are talking about these figures seem terrifyingly high! Gulp!

[TeaLeaf]

ps stryker i think that my readings are WELL above my real temps.

Please remember that the heat load depends a lot on the type of CPU you have running, let alone the number of other bits like HDDs etc you run within your case.  If you have an old CPU you could probably hold an ice-cream in it, the newer cpus pump out a lot more heat than you think sheepy.  

It also depends upon your location - for example, my mobo is currently 42 and my CPU 49 degrees.  But my PC has a heap of gear in it and is running a 2Ghz Athlon, but I am also in a room with a laser printer, fax, ADF scanner, server 3 monitors, and additional PC.  Plus lamps and radiators.  That's a lot of heat to add to ambient before you even start air-cooling........that's why me is drooling at the prospect of Prometeia    and more realistically looking to follow Stryker down the water cooled route....

TL.  

[sheepy]

well with my case its usually 2-3 deg cooler than room temp with all htefans running [old case] new case has better cooling and more fans so probably runs 5-6 deg cooler, with fans at 1/2 speed, have yet 2 check it tho

[TeaLeaf]

well with my case its usually 2-3 deg cooler than room temp with all htefans running [old case] new case has better cooling and more fans so probably runs 5-6 deg cooler, with fans at 1/2 speed, have yet 2 check it tho

Sheepy, that statement suggest that your temperature readings are wrong.  Air cooling taking you lower than ambient?!?  This does not happen unless your fans are big enough to cause 'windchill'.  

I think you have a faulty temperature reading there m8  

TL.  

[sheepy]

ambient as in room temp soz, i ment room temp is higher than than the comp temp. , im pissd forive me

[TeaLeaf]

ambient as in room temp soz, i ment room temp is higher than than the comp temp. , im pissd forive me

Ambient temperature is the temperature of the environment that your computer sits in.  i.e. room temperature.

Unless your have some sort of Formula 1 wind tunnel in your PC case it is unlikely that blowing air at say 23 degrees across a heat sink will cause the temperature of the mobo/CPU to go any lower than 23 degrees.

I still think you have some dodgy temperature readings.....when you get your temp bus for the front bays then you'll have a better idea of the real temp.

TL.  

[Stryker]

that's why me is drooling at the prospect of Prometeia    and more realistically looking to follow Stryker down the water cooled route....
TL.  

remember, unless you use something like a water cooler tower the temps are still very reliant on ambient temp!  only diff is water cooling can get the cpu temp much closer to ambient..

also if your room temp is too hight you can just stick your radiator on longer hoses and place it on your windowcill :-)

[Stryker]

TL is right, its a physics thing, the rad cannot be cooler than ambient!!!!  heat only goes one way, from hotter thing to cooler thing..... I don't think windchill works in this situation either! :-)  unless alska's eco system is carrying its air flow in thru sheepy's window and through his case :-)