Just finished checking the temps. I'm pretty amazed at how cool this thing is running.
I ran several stressful gpu benchmarks producing framerates below 30 fps and still could not get the gpu above 45 C. Then of course there is furmark which is famous for having some sort of magic ability to produce gpu temperatures in far excess of any other application in any other scenario. For example on my old desktop crysis maxed out with 4xSSAA produced around 8 fps and had the gpu under full load yet could not yield temps higher than 75C. Yet furmark somehow caused the gpu temps to skyrocket to 95C within a minute of opening it. Simply put, if you can keep the gpu functioning with furmark everything else is going to be a piece of cake. With furmark it quickly rose to 50C. Then continued creeping up extremely slowly, 1C every few minutes. I waited a long time for it to equalize as it always eventually does due to thermodynamics (hotter objects dissipate heat faster). But it just kept rising slower and slower. After about 45 minutes it was sitting at 56C and was still going up 1 C every 10 min. or so. At that point I gave up waiting any longer. This pattern makes sense since it's passively cooled. So it should take longer to equalize. I'm confident that after a few hours it would have equalized at somewhere between 60 and 70C. I should also point out that this is in my bedroom which is much hotter than the living room for whatever reason.
As far as the cpu goes I could not get it to go above 53C after 10 min. under full load. And it did not appear to be rising. And this is at 1000 rpm (40% fanspeed) which is dead silent.
It just goes to show you how much a difference low power hardware can make. If I were using a normal 95w TDP cpu and 150w TDP gpu this thing would be overheating in seconds.
I ran several stressful gpu benchmarks producing framerates below 30 fps and still could not get the gpu above 45 C. Then of course there is furmark which is famous for having some sort of magic ability to produce gpu temperatures in far excess of any other application in any other scenario. For example on my old desktop crysis maxed out with 4xSSAA produced around 8 fps and had the gpu under full load yet could not yield temps higher than 75C. Yet furmark somehow caused the gpu temps to skyrocket to 95C within a minute of opening it. Simply put, if you can keep the gpu functioning with furmark everything else is going to be a piece of cake. With furmark it quickly rose to 50C. Then continued creeping up extremely slowly, 1C every few minutes. I waited a long time for it to equalize as it always eventually does due to thermodynamics (hotter objects dissipate heat faster). But it just kept rising slower and slower. After about 45 minutes it was sitting at 56C and was still going up 1 C every 10 min. or so. At that point I gave up waiting any longer. This pattern makes sense since it's passively cooled. So it should take longer to equalize. I'm confident that after a few hours it would have equalized at somewhere between 60 and 70C. I should also point out that this is in my bedroom which is much hotter than the living room for whatever reason.
As far as the cpu goes I could not get it to go above 53C after 10 min. under full load. And it did not appear to be rising. And this is at 1000 rpm (40% fanspeed) which is dead silent.
It just goes to show you how much a difference low power hardware can make. If I were using a normal 95w TDP cpu and 150w TDP gpu this thing would be overheating in seconds.
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-Ron Swanson
"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony