Intel don't seem to know what an ideal temp ought to be
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:15 pm
I have recently re-built my system and looked up the intel site for advice about setting up cpu monitoring.
The whole premise of their articles are 'coolness', and that alone.
Although they provide a temperature performance range for each CPU, they provide no information either in articles or by their support team, on ideal running temperature, target temp, etc.
If noise reduction was your sole objective we would say, run the cpu as hot as possible, and thus use fans at their slowest and hence quietest. But we aren't that daft.
Intel are in fact worse than that as they actually say that PC's case temperature should be set up to run at a temperature that is significantly lower than the average daily summer temperature of most of the populated parts of the globe. Only Canadians, Eskimos, Russians, Northern Europe and Kiwis can meet their requirements all year round!
Intel don't seem to consider optimums just 'coolness'.
My Asus P5GD2 motherboard has BIOS set up features for case and CPU temp and Fan speed monitoring. But likewise no advice for what to to set it at? Although the implication is once again 'coolness'.
Humans run best at a very specific temperature, 37C.
I don't believe Intel CPUs run optimumly throughout their relatively wide operating range, eg, +5 to 65C, and even then you can go up another 20-30C before damage 'may' occur. How vague is that?
Help!
The whole premise of their articles are 'coolness', and that alone.
Although they provide a temperature performance range for each CPU, they provide no information either in articles or by their support team, on ideal running temperature, target temp, etc.
If noise reduction was your sole objective we would say, run the cpu as hot as possible, and thus use fans at their slowest and hence quietest. But we aren't that daft.
Intel are in fact worse than that as they actually say that PC's case temperature should be set up to run at a temperature that is significantly lower than the average daily summer temperature of most of the populated parts of the globe. Only Canadians, Eskimos, Russians, Northern Europe and Kiwis can meet their requirements all year round!
Intel don't seem to consider optimums just 'coolness'.
My Asus P5GD2 motherboard has BIOS set up features for case and CPU temp and Fan speed monitoring. But likewise no advice for what to to set it at? Although the implication is once again 'coolness'.
Humans run best at a very specific temperature, 37C.
I don't believe Intel CPUs run optimumly throughout their relatively wide operating range, eg, +5 to 65C, and even then you can go up another 20-30C before damage 'may' occur. How vague is that?
Help!