Hi Tony .... is this a challenge 
No way bat was it a challenge, not likely with such a cool dude as yourself. I was just wanting to compare a nigh on accepted industry standard [what you would expect if you bought a home PC of the shelf] as against a oveclocking nutters setup
See, anybody wanting to build their own PC for normal useage, on visiting this site for advice, could believe they
need an expensive cooling set up like yours.
I mean it is horses for courses at the end of the day, if your not an overclocking nut then a £12 bog standard CPU fan and maybe an additional exhaust fan [on top of the PSU fan] at £5 is ample.
Your set up does work as one can see by the temp readings it achieves. And so it should when you consider you have the equivalent of 52cm of fan cooling against 16cm in my system, and a state of the art CPU cooling setup against a bog standard H/S&Fan. Go on make my eyes water, how much did all that cooling kit cost ?
I note my MSI motherboard has a CPU temp monitoring and cut-off safety feature. If enabled it switches of your system if the CPU reaches temperatures that may be considered to high for the health of the CPU. The settings start at 70 up to 95 degrees in 5 degree increments. So the assumption is that temps up to 70 degrees must be considered well within the CPU's working capabilities, as a 25 degree range up to 95 is still avaliable as a working range.
Anybody know what AMD reckon is the accepted or ideal working temp for XP CPU's in a home PC working under normal conditions.
So come on peeps [well those with the ability to record system temps] what are your systems running at [please state CPU make and size and forms of cooling]
I have just connected up that spare intake fan I have installed in the case, and the temps are CPU 41 degrees and System 30 degrees. Of course I do not know if the room temp is the same as it was last night when I took the first reading.
