Cooling a Core 2 Duo
What are my options? I have a pair of Zalman CNPS7000B on my 2 AMD systems, and the same HSF is goot for Socket 775. Will this cool a C2D enough? Right now under 100% load on both cores (folding) I'm sitting about 70°C, which is a little warm for my preference. I had to sacrifice a bit of airflow in my Sonata II by removing the front 120mm fan because my video card is so long.
I looked at the 7700 from Zalman, but concluded it was too big for the case on my last board, so I suspect it's going to be the same on this board.
Or is my load temp ok?
I looked at the 7700 from Zalman, but concluded it was too big for the case on my last board, so I suspect it's going to be the same on this board.
Or is my load temp ok?
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Changing my first question, is 54° too hot?
And no, I wouldn't worry too much about 54 C core temps, Dan.
54*C is no problem at all, even for continuous full operations. If you decide to overclock though, you won't have much thermal headroom. If you want to run at default CPU frequency, you don't need to make any changes.
Thanks for the info guys.