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Hi so I have installed Lion retail on my GA X58A UD3R mobo with i7 950 CPU, 4GB RAM, GTS450 graphics successfully, now I have a few quick questions:

 

I installed some temperature checking utility, I have 4 cores for my CPU you know, but the temperature for each core is averagely around 54-61 degree celsius when having safari, adium running only, but about 65 when iMovie is running without any project opened. Is this normal?

 

Thank you very much!

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I usually get even higher temperatures on Windows with only some apps open, so it should be normal. Of course Mac will always be some degrees higher since it's not made to work perfectly on non-Apple machines. Normally, a coomputer should be around 50 with nothing opened, but always depends on the cooling system, dust, and the clock multiplier.

Until it's lower than 80, it's totally OK. On higher temperatures, CPU may get harm after some time at constant high temperatures (weeks)

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I usually get even higher temperatures on Windows with only some apps open, so it should be normal. Of course Mac will always be some degrees higher since it's not made to work perfectly on non-Apple machines. Normally, a coomputer should be around 50 with nothing opened, but always depends on the cooling system, dust, and the clock multiplier.

Until it's lower than 80, it's totally OK. On higher temperatures, CPU may get harm after some time at constant high temperatures (weeks)

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. Me as a noob, totally understand what you're talking about.

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when you say "some temperature checking utility" what app exactly you mean?

does it include FakeSMC Plugins for hardware temp reading?

 

I usually get even higher temperatures on Windows with only some apps open, so it should be normal. Of course Mac will always be some degrees higher since it's not made to work perfectly on non-Apple machines. Normally, a coomputer should be around 50 with nothing opened, but always depends on the cooling system, dust, and the clock multiplier.

Until it's lower than 80, it's totally OK. On higher temperatures, CPU may get harm after some time at constant high temperatures (weeks)

 

i can hardly see myself getting to 50-60 with safari and music(i think i may put a freezer when this will happen) since when it become normal?

anyway there are a lot of thing to take into consideration when talking temperature,

first, how is it with Windows? or even on BIOS hardware monitor?

i'm talking of course about idle state

 

 

oh BTW did little checking for you and as i thought:

when my pc has iCal, Safari, GarageBand opned(but non really working, only safari, and garageband in a paused Lesson) my CPU core temps are

35 Core 1

32 Core 2

26 Core 3

26 Core 4

After Opening iMovie for a brief moment temp going to:

37 Core 1

35 Core 2

29 Core 3

29 Core 4

 

But ONLY for brief moment, after something like 10 secs, temp back to normal (like when idling)

 

Let me also state highest for me is bout 60, and it happened when i run a real demanding CPU apps, (like Logic with a something like 80-120 effects on it)

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@Noam AA

I'm using a laptop computer, which of course has only one fan which is dedicated mostly to the GPU.

On the tower PC tough I still get temperatures around 50-60, and it misses one fan. As I said, it depends also by the cooling system and the compatibility with Mac OS. Around 60 is anyway totally normal for a CPU.

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sorry man, i really can't say this is normal, as CPU does NOT need to get to those temps when idling, it like a bottle neck for performance, and at list for me, 100% CPU require at least 20-25C more so 60+25 = 85C and for me it way to high, i didn't check i7 tjmax but I'm guessing it high enough to check things around

 

about a laptop, i can agree with you as it lacks a real air flow and a real CPU cooler.

 

but as for tower PC as i said before i can't see a reason for idling with this temp, though we can argue for hours

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The main factors are your heatsink fan or other cooling you may be using, the clock speed and cpu multiplier (if you're over clocked), and your cpu architecture (in terms of the size like 45 nm 65 etc)

 

The one I personally consider the greatest of course would be the heatsink that you're using as my q8200 idles in the 49-55º region spiking all the way up to ~70º when using handbrake to encode a video. I love Intel processors but I wish they would ship something better than their mundane heatsinks ._.

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