What are normal HD temps?

[PC eye]

I agree getting more air moving in the case is a good idea. There's a lot of heat in there and probably not a whole lot of air movement right now.

When I threw the Asus A8N SLI in the old case there were only two 80mm blue led fans with one in the hole at the top of the case and the other as rear exhaust. I saw higher board temps then cpu temps and said what the... That's when the new case was ordered for the new board. The two 250gb drives in this case never even break a sweat at 31C.

Yes, I'd say those temps are very high. I have a Vantec Vortex HDD cooler and with the fan off my temps are around 44°C, on low it's 33°C, and on high it's 30°C.

EDIT: crap, I clicked on the thread and it took me to the 1st page and I didn't realize that there was a 2nd page...oh well...

When SpeedFan is run just watch what the actual temps turn out to be. Now when you arrive on a thread all you have to do is look right above the first post on the right side or at the botom right to see if there's more then one page. (gee I wonder if this will on page #2 or #3? )

 

[Archangel]

Well... its a 5 year old case where i put my pc in... weither to call it old or not is up to you peole..
I just found the old CPU fan of my thunderbird.. i think ill try to mound it on the buttom of the 5.25"bay, fully at the front side, so it blow's air into the bay, forces the hotter air to gou out of the bay in the back.

its the fan of the CM Aero 7 CPU cooling.. I know.. its not the best Fan around.. but it doesnt have to be good for this job,.. and it looks nice

 

[PC eye]

Have you even gone to the link to download SpeedFan yet? Wouldn't it make more sense to find out if Everest is giving you inaccurate readings? Other people have been running into wild temps with Everest too. Once they ran SpeedFan they realized how way off Everest was. I think you would get a real good jolt when you see the drive temp down below 45C and maybe lower then 40C.

 

[Archangel]

well... i got 12 different temps when i started speedfan..
3 of those matched with the temps of the other programs, th HD temp from everest was the same as temp1 in speedfan.
and CPU and chipset of asus probe were the same as the ones in speedfan

all other tamps i gave were completely jibberish.. so speedfan didnt even show the temps on my GPU's (but i can check those in the nvidia drivers)

But it seems like everest gave me the correct reading.. even tough, my motherboard is too new,.. everest doesnt recognize it (and they stopped making everest home.. so i dont think it'll ever be recognized )

 

[PC eye]

SpeedFan's #1 temp seen on the opening screen is the cpu temp. The next one down from the cpu #1 temp is for the board itself. The HD0 and for a second drive installed the HD1 are the hard drive temps there. After that the ACPI and core temps are seen. It doesn't read video or sound card temps. Note you can chart the temps on the last tab to the right and watch them on the graph there.

 

[Archangel]

SpeedFan's #1 temp seen on the opening screen is the cpu temp. The next one down from the cpu #1 temp is for the board itself. The HD0 and for a second drive installed the HD1 are the hard drive temps there. After that the ACPI and core temps are seen. It doesn't read video or sound card temps. Note you can chart the temps on the last tab to the right and watch them on the graph there.

well... all those ACPI temps were completely random
and the HD temp was called HD0, so i guess its ok (well, ok that that is the temp,.. the value was too high in Speedfan too )

 

[PC eye]

What are you seeing now for a temp there? You were seeing into the mid 50Cs with Everest. Just looked now to see the primary here at 30C. It dropped 1C while the second drive remains at 31C. But the system definitely has quite a bit more air flow. Once you get the 120mm you'll probably see the temp SpeedFan shows drop down a lot further. Hopefully that's all it needs. You already have a cooler for it.

 

[Archangel]

mid 50's? i whish... its on 60*C

 

[PC eye]

If you are seeing that high of a temp with SpeedFan that would confirm a problem is there. That's way to high even in an older style case without a pair of small fans. Even in the old case with two drives I never saw drive temps get over the low 40Cs. If you reach in carefully and touch the drive and it feels too hot to be true you have a drive on the way out. It sounds like the card inside is drawing too much power.

 

[Cromewell]

I think theres one important thing we are all missing here.

What is the ambient temperature?

 

[PC eye]

Do you have a thermometer to throw in the case is what Cromwell is pointing at there. That will tell you what the environmental temps are.