The Coolerfest shootout. what a joke.

[NicColt]

LMAO check this out. 21C Idle, that's cooler than the ambient.

The CoolerFest infestation

 

[tboo]

They must have ment temp. at boot up.

 

[gimps]

even at boot up it would be equal to ambient temp.
And actually, they say ambient temp was 18C

 

[zbose]

Hmm, WBK38 loses to FOP38? Thats not what everyone else says

 

[V]

LoL!!! It took me 30sec to load that site

 

[rlism]

I don't get it, why is this funny? Ambient temperature was 18C.

About 3 weeks ago it was pretty cold here in northern california. In the morning my computer would run 25 idle WITH the case panels on. My mobo temperature was 24C. 21C isn't that far off. Seing as how I'm from 'sunny California' and what I consider cold is probably not that cold, why isn't it possible that someone can run 21 idle?

BTW: It's much warmer now... the same machine is running 30C mobo, 31C idle.

 

[TGM]

Would the temp really go up 15+ degrees just because the processor's running with a load opposed to idle, even with a poor HSF? I have a 1 Ghz TBird with some generic HSF that only ups in temp about 4-5 degrees(according to Asus' PC Probe) after running Unreal Tournament for a couple of hours, which I consider a "load".