Thread: What are i7 920 Normal Temps?

I just finished building my new PC, and installed Win7 RTM. The specs are:

Intel i7 920 (stock 2.67GHz)
Xigmatek Dark Knight Cooler
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Corsair Dominator 6GB DDR3 (running at factory settings, didn't touch yet)
WD 640GB HD
Corsair 620HX 620W PSU
X-Fi Fatal1ty Sound Card
Antec P182 case

And I'm using a 7300GS temporarily, waiting for my new card.

I ran Core Temp and RealTemp, and I get CPU temps of 50-50-48-49C, after an hour of email/music. Is this normal, or too high? Everything's at stock speeds. The Dark Knight was attached with AC5 thermal paste.

Thanks

You can always go to Intel's website and get the datasheets for your processor (unless they aren't up for some crazy reason). I don't think they tell you what your core temperature max is but they will tell you what your CPU temp max is (core is going to be higher and CPU higher than ambient). With the Core 2 Duo processors I believe the difference between CPU and core temp is supposed to be around 5 celsius.

Idle temperatures are not very useful for determining if there is a problem as they are largely influenced by things such as case airflow and ambient temperature. We aren't going to tell you that you have a problem unless you have idle temps that are completely off the chart.

Run a stress test and tell us what your load temps are, as blackwidow suggested.

Looks fine, but you might want to grab a stressing program to see what your max temps are. Prime95 should be fine.