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[Umi]

I just tried playing with my largest fortress (57 dwarfs) and it ran at a fairly constant 80c and 70fps without having sprayed it yet.

Would a dust remover work?  I had bought it thinking it was compressed air (That is what the sales person said at least...>_>) only to find that it was a dust remover.  Would that damage the computer to use?

[Umi]

Eh, I went ahead and used it anyways.  I sprayed it on my hand to make sure it wasn't really moist and then I sprayed out the fans.  Nothing visible came out, but it sure did help a lot.  The computer is now running a constant 65c and 45c with firefox and DF running.  Granted, I'm not at an intensive part of the game yet, but this is still 30c less than before.

Thank so very much for all of your help.  ^_^

[Sowelu]

My old one ran at 60-70c, and my new one, I have yet to see over 40c.

Whoa!  Is that motherboard or CPU temp?  Because if it's the latter, the thermometer must not be installed right.  That's absurdly low.

[Shades]

Whoa!  Is that motherboard or CPU temp?  Because if it's the latter, the thermometer must not be installed right.  That's absurdly low.

My desktop CPU rarely goes over 31c (my laptop often hits 60c+). If you check a site like silent pc review you'll see a number of CPU fans can maintain that temperature with almost no noise, mostly because modern cores are lower voltage.

My mates water cooled system is a flat 20c pretty much all the time under any load.

[Jay]

My old one ran at 60-70c, and my new one, I have yet to see over 40c.

Whoa!  Is that motherboard or CPU temp?  Because if it's the latter, the thermometer must not be installed right.  That's absurdly low.

Haha!  That's the kind of response I want from people!
Because, that thermometer is definitely installed correctly, and it is NOT wrong.
On top of that number being a composite of both readings from TWO thermometers, one on each of my CPU cores, and two thermometers placed strategically on the mobo near the CPU, there's also two MORE thermometers on the mobo in different places that are reading nearly the same.
Course, then there's two that ARE installed wrong, reading -2c and 0c.
THERE's your absurdly low.
But those don't concern me when the rest of it's reading as it is.
EDIT: Aww.  A couple sensors got cut off.
But nonetheless, Speedfan delivers proof of concept:

GPU is obviously the odd one out of the bunch, other then the two that are frozen.