Because of the hot weather I decided to install the system monitor on two of my computers.

Both are running at between 45 C and 55 C depending upon usage.

 

Does this seem hot - about right or cool??

 

Alsoon my old '98 machine the system monitor included a "Soft Cooler" which when activated reduced the cpu temperature by 5 C - how does that work?? Extra wait or no operation instructions?? The voltages were unaffected!!

You probably have an Intel then. Mine often goes up to 80ºC.

 

Stuart

My Celerons can get up to about 49C and they're heavily overclocked ! My fave monitoring utilites are Fanspeed and MotherBoard Monitor.

System temp 40c CPU temp 55c.:eek:

case temp 40C :eek: , CPU 42C, heavily overclocked duron with a HUGE taisol heatsink and a 60mm delta screamer fan which sounds like a hairdryer :p

Originally posted by Zimon

Alsoon my old '98 machine the system monitor included a "Soft Cooler" which when activated reduced the cpu temperature by 5 C - how does that work??

It generally involves shutting the chip down (or sometimes just parts of it) while its idle. That's how 'CPU Idle' works, certainly.