40-43 degrees celsius for cpu, this good?

[sublim21]

Title says it all, my cpu runs at 40-43*C, i was wondering if this was good. Its weird because my case runs at about 25-28*C, and not a thing is oc'ed.

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[sapasion]

Originally posted by sublim21:
Title says it all, my cpu runs at 40-43*C, i was wondering if this was good. Its weird because my case runs at about 25-28*C, and not a thing is oc'ed.

Depending on your HSF this seems rather decent. A better all copper heatsink with a highspeed fan would drop that temp of course but you're not terribly bad at all.
Which HSF do you currently have?

BTW there is a cooling forum where I'm moving this too.

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