ASUS F8 CPU Temperature

Hello, all, I'm new to the forums.

My ASUS F8-Sn's idle temperature, for both cores, is around 53-54 celsius when idle; I've checked using Core Temp and Speedfan. Is this a bit high and should I be concerned?

If it is high, how might I bring the temperature down?

On a side note that I'm not sure is relevant or not, in Task Manager, there have been instances of my CPU usage spiking as high as 50% for a few moments when I'm pretty sure I'm not running anything at all, and then dropping back to anywhere from 1-7%. This, too sort of worries me.

Specs:
Vista Home Premium
3 Gb RAM
Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 @ 1.83 Ghz

 

Hi and welcome to the forums!

53-54C does sound a little high for your idle temps. Check out NBR's Cooling Guide and see if that helps.

I'd start off with cleaning the heat sink, fan and vents.
As for your CPU usage spiking up to 50%, it's most likely caused by a program that's running in the background, such as an anti-virus application.

 

Thank you for the reply and the warm welcome.

After cleaning the fan as the guide suggested, I was able to bring my temperature to 47-50 celsius, which looks better to me. What are the ideal idle temperatures for other F8Sn users?

Is there a way to bring down the temperature lower still (whether or not my current temperatures are satisfactory, if they are then this is just out of curiosity)? I bought a cooling pad a while back which I plugged in a few times, but I didn't really see the temperature drop that much. From the guide, it doesn't look as if there's a CPU undervolting application for Core 2 Duo processors, and I'm by no means an advanced enough user to be installing Arctic Silver 5.

 

This is what Everest reports for my laptop... Don't know why there is a large gap between those 3 CPU temps... Perhaps because of the location of the temp sensors?


Temperatures
CPU 50 °C (122 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 46 °C (115 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 42 °C (108 °F)
GPU Diode 50 °C (122 °F)
Seagate ST9500420AS 44 °C (111 °F)

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So then my temperatures should still be in the lower 40s? 42-46, idle?

I just don't get it. When running Firefox, Trillian, and Winamp, the temperatures shoot back up to 55-58. I found that after a reboot when I first reported that my temperatures had dropped to 47ish, the idle temperature became 53-54 again. And I did clean the fan already...So what else could be the cause? This really bugs me.

 

really? mine is at 60c or higher. T.T

bad t5800 or bad n80 design.

 

It's a little 14" box, and anything smaller than 15" has restricted airflow patterns inside - thus, will tend to run warmer, esp with dedicated gpu. My W3 is the same way, and even has Igpu.

Everyone can take a deep breath and relax a bit.

 

My f8 idles at ~20C/28C (super LFM/6.0x) load at ~45C with a cooler. If your CPU temps are idling at ~50 it may mean that the CPU isn't throttling properly.

Booting into Ubuntu (no Rivatuner ) I get ~32-35 idle.

Try undervolting great guide. It also works for C2D CPU's. I also find that Rivatuner's power-on-demand is very efficient.

Good luck!