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fasty1   02-04-2012 at 07:12:20 PM

I switched from an x6 1050t to the 2500k yesterday and as of now using an a50 cooler with stock paste i get around 30-33 idle temp and low 40's while playing League of legends. Havent tried intensive game, didnt oc. Is this norm because my x6 was idling around 23 celcius.

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jaguarskx   02-04-2012 at 07:17:13 PM

That's better than normal.

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diellur   02-04-2012 at 10:57:30 PM

Doesn't seem unusual to me.

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geofelt   02-04-2012 at 11:35:20 PM

fasty1 wrote :

I switched from an x6 1050t to the 2500k yesterday and as of now using an a50 cooler with stock paste i get around 30-33 idle temp and low 40's while playing League of legends. Havent tried intensive game, didnt oc. Is this norm because my x6 was idling around 23 celcius.



I suspect your 23c number was not accurate. That is room temperature, and a cooler will run 10-15c over ambient.

Regardless, your temps look good. Try a stress test using prime95. So long as it tops out near 70c you are good. the tjmax for a 2500K is about 95c. Use realtemp to measure.

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amuffin   02-04-2012 at 11:40:23 PM

Great.

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seumas_beathan   02-04-2012 at 11:43:11 PM

geofelt wrote :

Use realtemp to measure.



Really? I would recomment you use HWmonitor

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geofelt   02-04-2012 at 11:56:52 PM

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Really? I would recomment you use HWmonitor



No doubt ok too; I just happen to use realtemp.
Is there something I should know about HWmonitor?

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omega21xx   02-05-2012 at 12:50:13 AM

Phenom ii at idle tend to run a little cooler than an i5 in my experience especially since the phenom you mentioned runs at a very low speed and tdp. (same tdp as the i5 i think but CnQ tends to work really well for power usage and temps)


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seumas_beathan   02-05-2012 at 12:53:41 AM

geofelt wrote :

No doubt ok too; I just happen to use realtemp.
Is there something I should know about HWmonitor?



Oh no and just to say i wasnt trying to undermime you or anything, i have just always found HWmonitor to be a more easy to use program with a better interface

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nerfmeplease   02-05-2012 at 03:50:01 AM

Im running an i5 2500k also and experiencing very similar temperatures at idle and while playing league of legends. You have nothing to worry about! :)

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nukemaster   02-05-2012 at 04:00:06 AM

As said above, i have found AMD's temperatures readings at idle to be off(intels are as well on some cpus).

AMD CnQ does clock lower, I was impressed with how low the power use was on the X4 955 for a cpu of its time and design.

The onboard temperature sensors are for thermal shutdown so are not that accurate until higher temperatures are reached. Motherboard sensors tend to not be well calibrated.

Your cpu is WELL within specs.

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