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As most of you know by now, I own an AMD 64 3000, 1 gig of ram, aerocool case.

I'm running at 47 Celsius right now on CPU TEMP and 31 C on the system TEMP. Is this too hot or is this okay?

Secondly, what do you guys think about running your computer all day and night...I don't think its wise, right? Others have told me that it's not a big deal.

For the temp issue, thats don't seam to hot. but if you are concerned you could look into a better CPU fan. You well problay go even hotter when gaming or pushing the processor. Case temp, thats about right from what I remember.

Here is a list of max temps on cpu's and you can see you are well in the clear. If your CPU runs to hot, the motherbord should power down saing it.

http://www.heatsink-guide.com/content.p ... temp.shtml

For leaving a pc on 24/7, I do it ALL the time. In the end its jsut as safe as turning them on and off. Turning them on and off causess little power surgess that over time can damage the system, but we are ralking a LOT of time. S cycling can hurt. Leving the system up, again I am sure ther eis a bad point but I have ot heard of this being a bad thing as of yet. The trick with leaving a system up is watching the cans and keeping it clean. I always have several fan's in my system, so on dies, I am fine. If the CPU fan dies, the system should auto shut down because most curretn motherbords have heat sencers under the CPU to save it form cooking itself.

Note if you ar eleaving the PC up all the time, a fire wall would be a good thing. Windows XP has built in fire wall, but a lot of the routers on the market have them as well, so you should be fine with just that.

This has been another lesson form VEGETA/GT_Hawk, the Tech guy

hey thanks Veg. You're a tech guy too? Anyone here beside me not work on comps for a living. LOL. Anyway thanks for the insight. Yah actually those temps I listed are while I"m running a game + Itunes in the background, along with my web browser up and running. So I don't think I have much to worry about either. I have plenty of fans in the case I think. 4 excluding the CPU mount fan.

Hey np

Well lets see collage, and University, both in computer Science Technology <--- oooo fancey words lol

Basiclay I can do both programing and sys admin work. currentlay on a 2 month contract in Calaforina with apple computers doing LDAP (basiclay employee database/fancey phone book) upgades and migrarion.
now if one of you could explain this error in the upgrade, I would be very happy lol

ERROR: Could not find Directory Server Configuration
URL ldap://ord.apple.com:389/o=NetscapeRoot user id admin DN cn=ord.test.com, ou=test.com,
o=NetscapeRoot (153:Unknown error)
ERROR. Failure installing iPlanet Directory Server. Do you want to continue [n]? n



Note: Definition of Expert: right atleast 51% of the time

I have an AMD 64 x2 (Dual Core) 4600+ and it runs at about 50C on average, a little hotter than I would like. I think I will invest in a better HSF and some Arctic Silver sometime soon.

I shut my computer down daily/nightly, mainly to save $$ on electricity, but also to cool down the room. With (3) 500W+ computers running in one room, it tends heat up the room like a sauna. I have always shut down my computer unless I have to run a defrag or virus scan over night.

On a side note, I was running Windows update yesterday and I noticed that it said Windows XP Service pack 3. I wasn't aware that there was a SP3 out, so I promptly cancelled the update so I could further investigate the newest version. Is it safe to goto SP3, anyone else have this installed?

it depends upon what you are doing when the cpu is at 47. overall it is not too bad, but if it does not go above 55 under heavy load you are good, although the cpu spec is probably a lot higher than that.

Operating Systems are designed now to run 24/7 with a reboot about everyother week in my opinion just to release some stuff out of memory because I don't care what anybody says Windows still have memory leaks after being run for so long. The last company I worked for automatically cycled the computers down once a week due to the massive memory usage during a weeks time with the many different apps that the employee's ran, just a bit of preventative maintence. Right now I am having a problem with my pc after several days of running I have to reboot it due to the fact that I've done some creative testing on it and done some horrible things so now I am slowly paying for it.

DA

well 47 under load is a SWEET temp.

As for electricity, I never noticed to much drean on one or 2 pc's running, main;y found the monitores take more power over the system itself. And those I turn off.

As for heat, ya havinf 2 pc's running in a room kept that room hotter. Especialy as Ac was not gettign tot hat end of the house well. But still did it as my c's always runnign somthing. downloading, server I am playing/testing da da da.