Is the temperature normal?

[Trance003]

Hi everyone. Thanks for your time to check my post. Really appreciate it. I've got 2 questions.

1st question: Are these temps considered 'safe'?
The idle temperature of the CPU is somewhere around 45-52C. 45-69C when i'm using heavy apps i.e, games.

While i'm gaming, it's around 48-71 for both GPUs. Never over 71C.

2nd question: Is the temp fluctuation normal? (described in detail below)
The only thing that concerns me is that even if it's on an idle state, the temp of the GPUs will slowly climb from 46-63C and then falls back to the min temp which then, repeats the temp rise and fall over and over again. Is this normal? FYI, this has been happening since I first feast my eyes upon this beautiful, powerful machine last December. x)

Any suggestions and comments to why this is happening?

Again, thanks for taking your time to check my post. I greatly appreciate it. =D

[Aikimox]

Totally normal. Those cycles represent a normal pattern: fans off - temps slowly climb to 63-65C, fans go ~30% and bring the temps down to 46C, fans go off again .... rinse and and repeat. Enjoy your beast

[Sentinel196]

Mine are a little higher than yours cos I'm overclocked and overvolted, but same pattern

[Juang1985]

Originally Posted by Sentinel196

Mine are a little higher than yours cos I'm overclocked and overvolted, but same pattern

by overvolted you mean your 2960xm right?
I havent heard of over volting your 6990s yet

[Sentinel196]

Correct.....

I was regularly seeing temps up to 80C on the GPUs playing BF3 with the 6990s with a slight overclock. Overvolting them without better cooling would be suicide!

As for my 580m system, running with a 0.05v overvolt and 200MHz overclock, my temps sit around 75C in BF3.

[warez420]

well i will check temp when my beast is back together, with my system being 1 10 months old and stock thermal compound, these were my temps

cpu i7 2720 idle at 45-50 during bf3 ultra i would hit 88-91.

gpu's were 6970's. idle was 55-62 on both cards, and hit 89-98 on bf3 ultra
and 90's for bf3 high

[Aikimox]

Originally Posted by Sentinel196

Correct.....

I was regularly seeing temps up to 80C on the GPUs playing BF3 with the 6990s with a slight overclock. Overvolting them without better cooling would be suicide!

As for my 580m system, running with a 0.05v overvolt and 200MHz overclock, my temps sit around 75C in BF3.

You can't compare those temps. AMD and Nvidia calibrate their sensors differently. The actual temp may be way higher . It's not uncommon for the vendor to "shift" the sensors 10C below the actual reading, so while you may be comfortable seeing 75C on your GPU the real temp may well be 85C+. And since I have seen that move used on Nvidia cards 2 gens ago, I'm not ready to put my trust in them just yet... at least not until AMD fails miserably on me, hehe.

Originally Posted by warez420

well i will check temp when my beast is back together, with my system being 1 10 months old and stock thermal compound, these were my temps

cpu i7 2720 idle at 45-50 during bf3 ultra i would hit 88-91.

gpu's were 6970's. idle was 55-62 on both cards, and hit 89-98 on bf3 ultra
and 90's for bf3 high

You should repaste...immediately. Also check the dust and HS to GPU/CPU contact.

[warez420]

Originally Posted by Aikimox

You should repaste...immediately. Also check the dust and HS to GPU/CPU contact.

thats why i called for a gpu replacement... i knew it was the stock paste, i take my fans off and clean my heatsync fin's monthly.

but the 6970's they send had no cross on the back to mount the heatsync,
and the tech wanted to pry off the old cross'es off the old gpu's...
i will post pictures tomorrow, i was volenteering at a casino last night till 4 am in the cashroom... was nice to sort out 1/2 million in cash...