(03-16-2014, 05:29 PM)Theron Wrote: 4-5C at idle and 2-3C under Dolphin load, but I'll need to put in an extended Dolphin session to see for sure. Temps were in the high 80s to low 90s during previous sessions. I'll report back. EDIT - The peaks are just about the same and it seems to average a few degrees cooler, but with that little variance it could just be environmental. It's definitely not worse, so I'm happy to have that crusty dry stock paste replaced with the MX-4. It does seem to take longer to heat up after boot and a bit quicker for the fan to drop down after ending emulation, but it also seems to take longer to cool to idle temps from 70C than before.
I ran Prime95 stress test while running Dolphin and got up to 99C before thermal throttling kicked in. The fan kicks up to 4000RPM then. 100% CPU usage on all cores for extended times is too much for such a small box with a stock cooler.
During normal use, I doubt the CPU would ever reach 80C, but it would during heavy gaming and emulation.
Thanks so much for your thorough analysis. I'm not crazy about those results. I think that I might go with Zotac's Zbox EI750. According to one professional review, it runs slower than the Brix Pro, but it's a lot quieter and runs at 65-75C in load CPU & GPU
Here's the review for those who might be interested:
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/systems/67173-zotac-zbox-ei750-plus/