[Sullivan]

What is the coldest your guys's cpu temps have every been?

Right now, my Q6600 my averages now are 20C. My room tempurature right now is 70F. I know 20C is crazy, but when I put my hand on the exhaust, its like a freezer cold feeling.

I am idleing right now too, at .3-1% cpu load. Core 3 is running at 14-15C.

 

[ljason8eg]

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Originally Posted by Sullivan What is the coldest your guys's cpu temps have every been? Right now, my Q6600 my averages now are 20C. My room tempurature right now is 70F. I know 20C is crazy, but when I put my hand on the exhaust, its like a freezer cold feeling. I am idleing right now too, at .3-1% cpu load. Core 3 is running at 14-15C.

So your CPU is idling below room temperature? That's not exactly...possible lol.

The lowest i've seen is about 24C when my room was rather cold.

 

[guyladouche]

http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/47...ou-ve-had.html

 

[crashnburn_819]

9C right after booting at 0% load.
Trust me, you don't want to know my ambients

California really isn't that sunny

Real-life temperatures with an OC idle at 20C, load at 50C under IBT

 

[Sullivan]

Oh, wow, didn't know we had a thread like that, sorry, search next time.

 

[NOS KIA]

28C when room temp is 25C

 

[JMT668]

27c

 

[NOS KIA]

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Originally Posted by JMT668 27c

Did I say 28c, I meant to say 26c......LOL J/K

 

[Adrienspawn]

Best possible on air cooling is maybe 3-4C above ambient. Best way to get the lowest value possible is to set the monitoing program to open as soon as you log into windows.

Lowest on my Q6600 was around 28C after boot with ambient of 24-25.

 

[TaNgY]

14c

 

[[PWN]Schubie]

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Originally Posted by Sullivan What is the coldest your guys's cpu temps have every been? Right now, my Q6600 my averages now are 20C. My room tempurature right now is 70F. I know 20C is crazy, but when I put my hand on the exhaust, its like a freezer cold feeling. I am idleing right now too, at .3-1% cpu load. Core 3 is running at 14-15C.

your CPU can not run cooler then your ambient....unless you have a TEC or an A/C unit dumping right into your computer

 

[Blameless]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sullivan What is the coldest your guys's cpu temps have every been? Right now, my Q6600 my averages now are 20C. My room tempurature right now is 70F. I know 20C is crazy, but when I put my hand on the exhaust, its like a freezer cold feeling. I am idleing right now too, at .3-1% cpu load. Core 3 is running at 14-15C.

Temps are either being reported incorrectly, or are being intepreted incorrectly by your software (e.g. wrong tjmax set).

You can't cool below ambient with forced convection, and with all the crap between the active parts of a CPU and the outside environment, it's very rare to get lower than 10C above ambient, on-die.

 

[cs_maan]

32C, room at 21C-22C.

 

[Sullivan]

I have my TJ max on my Q6600 set at 90C. Instead of 100. Intel reports that its 90C.

 

[br3nd064]

You can't cool below ambient temps, but it's probably being reported that way because the thermal sensors are inaccurate when idle.

 

[ljason8eg]

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Originally Posted by Sullivan I have my TJ max on my Q6600 set at 90C. Instead of 100. Intel reports that its 90C.

Then why does the latest version of core temp still have it at 100C? This is an ongoing debate and to me, 100C seems more accurate. I know the sensors aren't accurate at idle or low temps anyway, but they're not as far off as some people think they are. Take my Q6600 for example, at 90C TJmax on stock speeds, I LOAD at like...9C above room temp, and i have a HOT chip. That's impossible to load at 9C above room temp on air, and if i put my finger on the base of the TRUE, it's way warmer than 9C above room temp.