My latest system

[DustyBottoms]

Intel Pentium 4 3.2-E 2mb cashe boosted 5%
Asustec P4C800-E 1023mb DDR Sdram
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
NVIDIA Gforce 5900FX Ultra
Linksys 80211.b
EIZO Flexscan 19" L795 monitor (500-1 contrast ratio)
70GB WDC Raptor HDD 10,000rpm (Removable Drive bays)
70GB WDC Raptor HDD 10,000rpm (Removable Drive bays)
70GB WDC Raptor HDD 10,000rpm (Back-up only)
Maxtor 250gb one-touch usb/firewire backup drive
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)
Plextor CD-R PX-W5224A
Plextor DVDR PX-708A
Logitek MX series wireless mouse and keyboard
HP 4200tnd for b&w
HP 4550n – color
Scanner Epson 1640su
ADSL 1.5m down 500k up


Temps are mb 36 cpu 48

[mickwish]

Looks good, Dustybottoms. But is that CPU temp at idle or under load (like running FAD or something)? :confused:

If it's at idle... :o

Nice drives there. :cool: And are those Raptors in a RAID config?

Cheers
Mick

[Stan]

Yep, 48 deg for idle CPU is way too hot...
My 3.4GHz P4 temp is around 32 deg when idle. After a good 2 hrs playing Far Cry, temp is around 41 deg.

[DustyBottoms]

I was also little suprised at the idle temps. However, when using 100% continuously the max cpu only goes up to 52C.

Might be because I have it shoved in between my printers under my desk.

There is a three inch air-gap at the back and the front is clear.

Oh well, It's been cranking along for 6 months now continuoulsly running. :cool:

Nice drives there. And are those Raptors in a RAID config?


No raid... And so far no lost data. I mirror my data to the 250gb Maxtor firewire drive about once a week - and to one of the Raptors daily. I only have two drive bays. Just takes a few minutes. I like the security of have my back-up data sitting unplugged and on my desk. :D

[Stan]

The high temp could also be due to the extra 2MB L3. There are a lot more transistors in that CPU than in any other CPU!!!
Dunno - I could be wrong...

Maybe you want to make sure that your HS/fan is properly seated on the CPU...