High CPU idle temp?

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0 comments, last by Saruman 17 years, 8 months ago
This may be what I get for using an out of the box cooling system, but my new AMD X2 4600+ (Socket AM2) is measuring ~45-47'C when idle. I've checked the H/W Monitor in BIOS and it says that 'Cool n' Quiet' is disabled, and that CPU voltage measures ~1.32 while CPU frequency meausures 200Mhz. Is this kind of temperature at idle anything to worry about? Should I enable Cool n' Quiet? And do any of the BIOS settings need tweaking? Thanks
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Cool'n'Quiet works a lot like Intel SpeedStep where clockspeed and voltage are reduced when the load on the processor is lighter.. realistically there is no reason to have this disabled.

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