Should I bother with AM cooling?

[Niverive]

I have a AMD 5600+ Dual Core, with stock cooling (which I had upgraded slightly to a quiter fan) the hottest I've seen it run while playing some games is 56 C, is that too warm should I bother getting aftermarket cooling, it normally stays around 50 while playing games tho, or maybe I can turn my fan speed up somehow?

 

[ricanflow]

Get this:

Newegg.com - ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail

56C is way too hot, im at 3.0ghz 24\7 and dont see anything above 53C on load.

 

[Niverive]

I was actually looking at that same fan for awhile thinking about getting it, I went ahead and ordered one from newegg along with some ArcticClean. Should be about a week before it gets here prob, I'll post my results in awhile, then I'll post my new temps once the stuff proofs and goes through a lot of cycles.

 

[commandercup]

theres no need to fret about any temps lower then 70 on load... theres no reason to get aftermarket cooling unless your overclocking or wan't a more quiet or sexy solution...

 

[ricanflow]

theres no need to fret about any temps lower then 70 on load... theres no reason to get aftermarket cooling unless your overclocking or wan't a more quiet or sexy solution...

Most guys here would say otherwise, i wouldint even go anywhere near 70C or 60C, thats just too hot.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Yea, at 60C with my puny overclock, I get several issues, programs start to crash and it acts like a big overgrown space heater. I would honestly try to keep it as close as possible to 50C or lower....

 

[Schecters]

Definitely go with an after market cooler. It's not that expensive, and it does make a noticeable difference. And they're a lot quieter.

 

[commandercup]

Yea, at 60C with my puny overclock, I get several issues, programs start to crash and it acts like a big overgrown space heater. I would honestly try to keep it as close as possible to 50C or lower....

that probably wasn't because of the temperature... many stock CPU's come at 50 C load or even a 40 C idle... stability almost always has nothing to do with temperature unless your reaching safety throttling or shutoff temps...

a hot CPU won't actually increase room temperature at all... maybe by a few C? if you notice even with a hot CPU, your case will remain just above room temperature...

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

stability always has something to do with temps, when at 55C I get no errors, but once I get close to 60C I will have quite a few programs crash. If it didn't, then ****, why would people with really high overclocks and serious volts need water cooling or better? hmm?

 

[commandercup]

because if the temps are too high then the processor won't function (it will be damaged or will automatically shutdown to prevent damage)...

let me rephrase what I said though, I didn't say it right... : temperature doesn't usually effect stability in most systems unless they reach dangerous temperatures (able to cause damage to the actual CPU)