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    What is your idle CPU temp?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by iamapato01, May 13, 2006.

  1. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    About 52 degrees idle because I have speed stepping disabled.
     
  2. loix

    loix Notebook Enthusiast

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    right now:

    36° cpu
    50° hdd

    amd sempron 3200+
    presario v3017LA
     
  3. root

    root Notebook Consultant

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    Laptop : 52c
    No overclocks.
    T2500

    Desktop:27-29c
    600mHz overclock.
    3200+ XBOX Manny core.
     
  4. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Turion X2 @ 1.6ghz @ 0.925 volts is idling at 31*
     
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    Reezin14 Crimson Mantle Commander

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    T2400 1.83Ghz idle at 35*,no oc.
     
  6. HavoK

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    60c when idle with my 7400 go. way too high for idle I think, hits into the 80s with alot of game playing.

    again, seems far too high for me for a basic 7400...
     
  7. moon angel

    moon angel Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Celeron-m 380 1.6GHz, no over or underclocking.

    I had Notebook Hardware Control installed as a matter of habit as my old portege could really heat up at times. I don't have NHC set to open at startup anymore because even running pi tests this celeron-m hasn't gone above 54 degrees. It usually idles around 46-47.
     
  8. Phillip

    Phillip Phillip J. Fry

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    40C for now but if i let it run a while it could get to 47. depends on what I do.

    I can Actually get it to play games and DVDs at 30C with a rigged system I have that is a combo of a deskfan and placing my laptop on two 3/4in sticks.
     
  9. raulfverine

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    Acer Aspire 5670, surfing + downloading + BitComet = 68*C
     
  10. Bobby M

    Bobby M Notebook Enthusiast

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    I downloaded mobmeter, and this is what I got:

    Frequency: 2.80GHz
    Temperature: 37.0 C
    Charge Rate: 2.84W
    HDD #0: 27.0 C

    I have a HP Pavilion ZD7058CL (P4 2.8, 2 GB RAM, 80GB 4200 RPM HD)
     
  11. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    53C right now, 2 firefox windows open, Windows Explorer, 2 pdf's

    I've seen it idle at around 45C
     
  12. Phillip

    Phillip Phillip J. Fry

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    41C two IE windows, and Win media player open
     
  13. darth_laidher

    darth_laidher Notebook Evangelist

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    50c with opera open and 46c to 49c with nothing
     
  14. kuksul08

    kuksul08 Notebook Consultant

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    Now mine idles at about 54C and when playing a game it went up to 74C!!!
     
  15. moon angel

    moon angel Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Cpu 51c

    Hdd 38c
     
  16. fxrron

    fxrron Notebook Geek

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    My dv9000t CPU temp is 21 C with the Zalman NC 1000 cooler. The cooler lowered the CPU temp 9 degrees and the HDD temp 10 degrees. Gpu temp is 50 degrees. This is the best laptop cooler you can get, IMHO.

    Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz, 1.0 GB Ram, 100 GB 7,200 rpm Seagate, Go 7600.

    Ron
     
  17. RefinedPower

    RefinedPower Notebook Deity

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    CPU 66.5
    HD 53

    Running AVG virus software and FireFox web browser. Oh its a P4 2.66ghz LOL.
     
  18. Estlander

    Estlander Notebook Consultant

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    Here are my temperatures with AVG virus, HDD temp. monitor, Opera and MSN Messenger open:
    AMD Dual Core CPU - between 46-51 C
    Nvidia GPU - between 68-72 C
    Seagate 5400RPM HDD - 42 C (with a notebook chill mat) without the chill mat it used to be 48 C
     
  19. Lil Mayz

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    My average CPU speed around 60 degrees, plugged in. According to HD that is Critical HD temperature, but my laptop is not unresponsive in any way at all LOL.
     
  20. nirbs

    nirbs Notebook Enthusiast

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    wow!!!!! no offence guys but i just bought a laptop about a month ago, and the highest the temperature has gone is like 45 for cpu, and 42 for my hd....that's like after hours of gaming....
    ever try this: put like a big book behind the laptop so its raised then put like caps of plastic bottles at the bottom, so its raised this helped my laptop by a few degrees....also, after gaming if you take out the ac plug so its on battery for like minutes, my laptop temperatures drop almost 5 degrees
     
  21. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    28 at the moment (why can't I vote below 30?)
     
  22. radeonlap

    radeonlap Newbie

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    :( Without saying nothing about fan on/off this topic is useless.

    I can have nice celeron m witout speedstep and 45C but runing my fan as hell or 51C on dual core when fan is off.
     
  23. koro

    koro Newbie

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    I have an Acer Aspire 5672 WLMi (Core Duo 2300). The idle CPU temperature is 62-64 C, and while heavily loaded (playing Battlefield 2, for example) it is about 80 C. I'm a bit scared about these numbers, what do you people think? Anyone has the same temperatures?
    I'm a bit afraid of opening it up to do the suggested improvements in the thermal compound, do you people think that if i say this way something may go wrong?

    Edit: Btw, my HD temperature is 45-48 C and these measurements were made in a hot environment (stupid tropical weather, the temperature in this room is about 38 C right now, no AC :( )
     
  24. Fiah

    Fiah Notebook Guru

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    in a hot enviroment, that's perfectly fine. my Asus F3Ja hits about 80c when loaded to the max (Folding@Home and Battlefield), and it's a bit chilly here (18 degrees i guess). the cpu (t7200) is undervolted
     
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    Thanks for the reply, I feel relieved now (altough this is a 1.66 mhz core duo, shouldn't be as hot as yours).

    By the way, i just found intel
    Thermal Analysis Tool . It looks pretty useful; but I tried to run at 100% workload on both cores, and in few seconds i reached over 95C and my system got automatically shut down.

    That doesn't sound normal, or is it? Does anyone care to make the same test on a Acer Aspire 5672 and let me know if the same happens to them?
    I am just worried that something might be particularly wrong with this laptop, *besides* the usual overheating problem this model has.

    Regards,
    koro
     
  26. RefinedPower

    RefinedPower Notebook Deity

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    Oh man thats a killer, I think I would die before the notebook would in that kind of weather. :eek:
     
  27. Fiah

    Fiah Notebook Guru

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    that shouldn't happen.. what good are 2 cpu cores if you laptop immediately overheats when you try to use them? FE, i'm currently running Folding@Home on both cores (100% cpu utilisation) and the temps are about 66C

    edit: I guess my laptop would've overheated and shut down too if I hadn't undervolted it :eek:

    running the thermal analysis tool right now, temps are about 76C and slowly rising. I guess it'll top out at 80ish
     
  28. wojtek_pl

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    Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi1536 - I would say, that idle temp is up to 58 Celsius when fan starts for a moment then it goes down to 51C. Temp shown by NHC and MobileMeter. No battery, full cable power, Core Duo 1.73GHz :D
     
  29. moon angel

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    Tht's bad but the number of overheating Core Duos that have been posted about on this forum makes me think they're pretty hot runners. The new Prescott perhaps? ;)

    My Celeron may be slow and have a laughable battery life but at least it doesn't do that!
     
  30. nammy

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    CPU 53c
    HD 51c
    Nothing running!
    A bit much maybe??
     
  31. nammy

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    When I do a Defrag, Virus scan play movie, play music, on line,
    Temp
    CPU 69c
    HD 54c
    Is this very hi or is it normal?
     
  32. Reezin14

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    HDD 38c
    CPU 46c
    with a bytecc notebook cooler
     
  33. lowlymarine

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    When I first turned my machine on Thursday after a particularly cold (for Florida) night, I had a 22C average (24C Core0, 19C Core1) for my X2 4200+, with C&Q disabled. Didn't last long of course, but that was cool. Typically I idle about 33C average, and can hit about 49C under full load (at stock clocks and voltages). That's with some AS5 on the stock AMD (aluminum, boo) cooler and fan. My 8800GTS, on the other hand, idles at 67C, hits as high as 78C during gaming. And that's low...

    My I9300 idles about 47-49C. Spikes as high as 67C under full load (long gaming sessions). The Go6800 idles at about 50C, reaching about 68-71C maximum.

    The Compaq v2000z idled at 60C and hit over 100C at full load. That, of course, being about the time I discovered there was almost no thermal material between the heatsink and the processor. After they replaced most of the guts - mainboard, RAM (not that I was using the RAM they replaced anyways, but still), CPU, heatsink, and fans - it idled about 45C, with the fan switching at 50C and the maximum temp it ever reached being about 60C. The x200M - well, yeah. Who cares?

    And that Gateway 7422GX that's still around here somewhere doesn't appear to have a thermal sensor - at least not one MobileMeter, SpeedFan, or CoreTemp can find.
     
  34. plattnnum

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    my x2 turion has been on for about 4 hours...idling at 51
     
  35. tameril

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    Using sony vaio VGN-FE21M. Using it out of the box. No under or over clocking done:

    Idle temperature is around 35-40 C. Varies, but usually is 38-39 C

    Using the Intel TAT program, I tried running a test with full load on both cores. Temperature varied between 68-70 and refused to go over, but fans became clearly audible as a silent constant buzz.

    After a 3 hours play-time of Vanguard: "saga of heroes" the temp was (meassured during gameplay with alt-tabbing) 50-55 C.


    I started reading this post, because since 2 days ago I started getting even 45-50 with nothing obvious running. To be honest I thought something was wrong with my CPU fans, but it seems 40-50 is an ok idle temp.
     
  36. Necss

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    Intel Core Solol Centrino Ide 31 C. Hd
    How can i check Cpu temp?
     
  37. miner

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    My idle Pentium M temp is right around 30C. This of course is on throttling and I also have AS5 in there and a notebook cooler.
     
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    T2500 2.0Ghz Core Duo
    in an Asus W2JC
     
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    i dont OC or UC. my temp is around 19-29 idling.

    check my sig for my laptop spec. i also use i8kfangui to cool my system.
     
  42. Phillip

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    used to be in the low to mid 30s but now it hovers at ~40
     
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    Floated around 45-50 while I used photoshop and illustrator without modifications, and is now at a chipper 35-40 with RMclock utility managing cpu speed and undervolting (1.000 baseline, 1.062 at max).

    No desktop coolers or thermal paste.
     
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    Dell Inspiron 9100
    Intel Pentium 4, 2.8GHz
    512mb ram.

    65-75C degrees.
     
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    Dell Ispiron 6400
    C2D T7400 @ 2.16GHz
    1GB RAM 120GB HDD
    I have speed stepping disabled therefore it idles around 46-47 degrees.
     
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    Used SpeedFan. Temperature is around 42 degrees C.

    Was hoping to get a lower temp....say 20 degrees c. ;)
     
  47. akpov

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    My wifes HP Core duo 1.66Ghtz idles between 20-30c.

    My Hp 1.6Ghtz Pentium M is around 45c, undervolted with NHC and when it had a Celeron M it was at 53c.

    Leon
     
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    My laptop idle temp is between 45-50c when the CPU is either at 966MHz or 2.33GHz
     
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    does this work with vista ? because on the site it says Required OS only XP and 2000.
     
  50. Jabe

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    speedfan: 27-30 degrees when idle
    rmclock: 40 degrees when idle

    i voted 30-35 because at the time i didn't have rmclock installed. now i don't know which temperature i should trust. it's a big difference between them.
    when undervolted with rmclock there's up to 6 degrees difference between the core's (i have core 2 duo 1,83), without undervolting there was up to 3 degrees difference.
     
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