A question about heat on a non overclocked system. I recently installed a Intel 2.8b ( 800 ) into my soyo i865PE plus Dragon II MB and the CPU idle temperature is listed at 44c. Running through a 3dMark2003 loop for an hour it peaked at 48c , is this ok? I could remove the stock Intel film/paste stuff that comes on the heatsink and replace it with Arctic Silver 5 ( or something ) but is it worth it? I don't plan on ever overclocking it and the last time I removed the heatsink from a motherboard the seating bracket snapped .
Also my motherboard chipset heat is listed at 31c idle 38c heavy load. Is this also ok?
Thanks
Also my motherboard chipset heat is listed at 31c idle 38c heavy load. Is this also ok?
Thanks