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Ok, I'm not so sure if this is a Windows 7 related issue, but thought I'd post to see what people think anyway. Couldn't find any good answers out there anyway.
My CPU now sits around 50-53 degrees Celcius on startup. Heck I caught it at 70C so I dusted it like mad. Last time I checked which was a month ago, it was around the early 40's. So after I dusted my tower to perfection, it still remains around 50. I don't have a third party heatsink and just using the one that came with the CPU when i first bought it. My rig is about 2 years old and has been working fine. I use speedfan to monitor my temps and the other readings seem to be fine. I'm afraid it will go high and crash if i play games or something.
I noticed this change when I install windows 7 a few weeks ago from XP. Could that be hogging CPU resources or something? Or maybe its unrelated at all... I'm pretty sure my case is pretty good for cooling. Wiring is decent and fans are set to high. Anyone know what I can do to bring it down a notch to the way it was? (maybe besides getting a thermal heatsink or something).
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core 2.2GHZ
ASUS M3A motherboard
4 Gigs or RAM
Radeon HD 3870 (512MB)
Windows 7 - 64bit
Antec 900 Gamer case
My CPU now sits around 50-53 degrees Celcius on startup. Heck I caught it at 70C so I dusted it like mad. Last time I checked which was a month ago, it was around the early 40's. So after I dusted my tower to perfection, it still remains around 50. I don't have a third party heatsink and just using the one that came with the CPU when i first bought it. My rig is about 2 years old and has been working fine. I use speedfan to monitor my temps and the other readings seem to be fine. I'm afraid it will go high and crash if i play games or something.
I noticed this change when I install windows 7 a few weeks ago from XP. Could that be hogging CPU resources or something? Or maybe its unrelated at all... I'm pretty sure my case is pretty good for cooling. Wiring is decent and fans are set to high. Anyone know what I can do to bring it down a notch to the way it was? (maybe besides getting a thermal heatsink or something).
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core 2.2GHZ
ASUS M3A motherboard
4 Gigs or RAM
Radeon HD 3870 (512MB)
Windows 7 - 64bit
Antec 900 Gamer case