Computer Processor Temps

[sheeny (Al)]

My desktop hasn't been stable since upgrading to win 10. I took it to a computer guru in Bathurst yesterday, and of course the problem wouldn't replicate for him.

He reckoned the processors were getting too hot. The fact that yesterday morning immediately after starting the PC I could get the task bar buttons to appear or windows start button to respond, tells me its windows, not temperature.

I am currently running it with the covers off the sides of the tower, and so far so good, but the temps are at most 2 °C less then with the covers on. These temps are with the covers off.

So, a question for the learned computer experts here - do these temps look too hot to you and if so what can I do about it?

Al.

[glend (Glen)]

Liquid cooling. Plenty of cooling systems available through places like PC Case Gear.

[Stonius (Markus)]

Have you tried vacuuming the dust out of the CPU heatsink? That has been a common cause of temp issues for me.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

upgrading the cpu fan never hurts.
liquid cooling is probably a bit of overkill - a good aftermarket cpu fan like a noctua will be fine (as long as you have enough space in the case).

https://www.pccasegear.com/category/207_23/cpu-cooling

the temps look ok maybe a little bit higher than normal but its more about how high they go when the system is under load.

[RickS (Rick)]

That's not particularly hot. Max temp for the i7 950 is 67.9C. If you're getting problems from a cold start then I'd be looking elsewhere. A quick and easy thing to try is reseating the memory and any PCI cards.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Stonius (Markus)]

Are you overloading the Computer's power supply? If it can't handle the load it can lead to instability. Memory issues ccan alalso ccause instability. Google Memtest and give it a go.

Is it just random crashes? Or freezes? Does it go to bluescreen ?

[w0mbat (Ian)]

Those are not high temperatures. Also modern processors protect themselves by throttling back if temperature becomes too high. So I think your issues are elsewhere.
Ian

[pjphilli (Peter)]

I agree with Marcus. First make sure your CPU heatsink is free of dust.
I recently cooked my astro PC CPU because of a surprising amount of dust
build up. I went through my other PCs and gave them a good cleanout.
Peter

[sil (Steve)]

temps are fine, as others say clean out dust and crud, in a smokers home it'll get clogged fans and heatsinks everywhere. if heat is a big problem the computer will usually shut down to protect parts from failing and the motherboard will give warning beeps on turn on. is your case packed full of crap close together so air cant flow openly to remove hot air from components? odds are its malware. No matter what people claim they do or dont do with their computers and rely on the pre-installed internet security package I constantly find malware on these machine people insist are clean.

how did you upgrade to windows 10? over the top of an existing OS? well it wont be clean for a start, OS installs should always start with a full reformat of the hard drive , why add two OSes crap together and expect great performance?

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Nothing wrong with those Temps' .... that's cool compared with some systems I've had.

I've gone to ' liquid cooling ' ( self contained with Radiator ) ... not that you have to do that....Speccy is showing very reasonable CPU Temps.

My bet's the Win10 Software might have conflicts some where, or problematic Ram on startup.

Col....

[multiweb (Marc)]

39c is not overly hot. You won't have any issues under 70c. If it gets too hot the PC will shutdown instantly. There are protections as not to damage the CPU cores.

[sheeny (Al)]

Since posting this I have been running my PC with the side covers off. It hasn't put a foot wrong...

I didn't think the temps had changed very much. Maybe a couple of degrees.

Time will tell...

Al.