1.4 CPU 42C-47C load. Why so high?

[dborden]

See sig for my rid. I have a glaciator attached with ASII. I have two 82mm fans in the front pulling air in and 1 82mm fan in the rear exhaust and 1 PCI fan exhaust. Why is my temps so high. These temps where taken from the BIOS PC health option on my Abit KG7. Also how do I find my ambient case temp? I only have Motherboard temp which runs between 40-45 and cpu which runs between 42-47.

Please help. I would like to eventually overclock this but not with these temps...

[TranceBear]

Idle Temps can vary greatly with different cooling programs running. What are your load temps? These are the temps that won't vary greatly.

[dborden]

What is a load temp???

[thefly]

Load temps just means the temp when your processor is running 100% flat out.

For instance. Runing Fah! will create a 100% processor usage.

[dborden]

So should I ignore my bios temps and just install windows and MBProbe or something??

Im not quite sure how load temps are more accurate that idle temps or that load temps would be lower than idle temps......

If my idle temps in the bios are already 41-47C won't my load temps be a lot higher?

[Subzer0]

well try playing a high graphics game for about an hours or so[it wont need that long] but do it to get a constant temp then exit and use sisoft or your bios to check how they are after!
this will raid temps and run cpu at full usage ,then again if youve got sisoft you can do a burn-in test with it to put in under full load and then check your temps after that
let me know if you need to get sisoft as i can show you a good link!