about cpu temperature...

Hi!

Today i played half an hour "NFS Undercover", the "temp3" rised, nearly immediatly, to 82°C and then stand by...
The PC turns very well, and also the game...

Has anyone an opinion about all this, please ???

Thanks !!!

Temp 3 is reported from a sensor within one of the CPU cores on the die. Most recent Intel CPUs will go to 100c on that sensor before the BIOS invokes thermal overload procedures. Still, the temps you report are higher than desirable and it certainly sounds like the CPU heatsink/fan unit is barely adequate.

Which CPU do you have, and are you using the heatsink/fan unit that came with the CPU? What does SpeedFan report for the RPM of the CPU fan?

I don't know what temp 3 is, because like your's was, the reading is very high, but not operative, so I keep it hidden, which is quite common. Since you have a new motherboard, that temp may be now active, but if it is, it should vary some over time. If not, I would disregard/hide it. As for your CPU temp, it is not that high, considering the system temp that you are operating at. Depending on your circumstances, it could be cooled by lowering the room temperature where it stays, or improving the case temperature by adding fans, cleaning up the routing of cables, adding water cooling, or as I did, change the case itself. The case that I now have for my primary rig only has 3 fans, but they are 200mm, where as the old case, which I use for my secondary rig has 5 fans, but are only 80mm. The new case runs at least 7-8 degrees cooler than the old rig. Yet, the temp that your CPU is running is not all that hot, unless it spikes too much under a load.

HWInfo32 reports my CPU at around 51 degrees Celsius, motherboard at around 44 degrees celsius and GPU no more than around 65-70 degrees celsius after 4 or 5 hours after playing games with a couple of breaks. Standard Antec Two Hundred case - going to buy a fan for the side.

I disabled "smart fan" in BIOS, so CPU fan runs at its maximum speed : 2900RPM, case fans = 1925RPM.
I won 5°C on temp3... but it's not a solution because of the noise...

I would not worry to much about that temp motherboard temp sensors are known to be incorrect a lot of time and it seems like the rest of your temps are not to bad and you say the machines is working nice so I would just try to improve air flow in your case.

computersplus said:

I would not worry to much about that temp motherboard temp sensors are known to be incorrect a lot of time and it seems like the rest of your temps are not to bad and you say the machines is working nice so I would just try to improve air flow in your case.

Thanks for your opinion, maybe i'm too parano ... I keep an eye on it, for now, and i cool my mind...