do these temps look right under load???

thefabe · 21 Nov 2009

@Fluffy Well from what i could find on Intel E5300 is the Thermal Specification max is 74.1c. So I would say your running at a safe temp.Of course the lower the temp the longer the expected life.

Fluffy · 22 Nov 2009

Thaks fabe, I would add rep but I recently gave it to you :P

sotorious · 22 Nov 2009

thefabe said:

Just a thought. If you have a place to put an addition case fan then do that. Also sometimes you can add a larger rear fan if your not already running a 120mm exhausting air. I Know with my case I could, and did add a 120mm front fan blowing in. It was a pain in the a@@ to remove my front panel and had to actually bend my case a little to squeeze the fan through the opening , but it lowered my hardrive temps and overall temps. I'll tell you what though on my next build my case is going to be one of the ones that has the cutout behind the cpu just for this exact reason. Fabe

well i got a 200mm fan uptop exhausting.

mdpilam · 22 Nov 2009

I was getting upper 60s/low 70s under load and I did a bunch of research and figured I put too much paste on the HSF and decided to re-seat it. After re-seating my temps were low 70s under load! It did nothing! Though maybe it needs to set or something. I have an i7 920 (no OC), 6GB DDR3 OCZ Plat., 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD and Xigmatek Dark Knight.