What are you're Cpu and System Temps ?

It is really interesting though how that varies.

Ran Everest's CPU stress test for almost 2 1/2 hours and the CPU never hit 60c.



@Kenard..my Zalman 9700 is barely audible even at full speed.

Normally I hang out around 14C (ambient usually around 22C)

You must have an AMD processsor. On some of them the readings are useless.

I replaced my TIM and am running the CPU stress test again. So far, it hasn't gone above 45c! Must have used too must compound first time.

my gosh tweek those are low does really using to much thermal paste do that i used alot i also had to wipe a little off the board which you have to be really carefull

other then that if it doesnt go that high hell you're golden brother but if it isn't heating up when doing stressfull apps i would think something was wrong too no matter how much paste or fans stress test always bare different results

Kenard said:

The PC is kind of loud because of the Zalman fan, so I set a manual temperature for the GPU.

I don't think it is you're case intel just runs hot period My old p4 no matter how much cleaning and keeping it cool it would get really hot it got to the point i had to take the side panel off and leave it off

Im useing the same case as i had my p4 as you can tell my temps dont even get near where my intel had me so i wouldnt think it was the case it is just one hot chip

Yeah too much TIM will increase temps. The first time, I spread a thin layer over the whole CPU. This time, I just put a pea sized dot in the middle and let the heatsink spread it. Huge difference!