AMD processors like you describe have a feature called Cool 'n' Quiet (which has to be enabled in the BIOS, default is usually disabled) and also in the Windows Control PANEL power settings you must have "balanced" or "power-saver" (default is enabled). Cool 'n' Quiet clocks the processor down at times of light load. Evidently you have both these settings enabled, because your clock at idle goes down to 780 MHz.

Active/passive cooling policy is another thing again. Passive slows down the processor before increasing fan speed, active cooling policy increases the fan speed before slowing down the processor.

Active will get you lower temps generally.

My 3.0 GHz Phenom II X4 945 (the 95 watt version) in a Shuttle mini PC, which has a Shuttle "ICE" heat pipe cooler, idles at around the same as yours (800 MHz). I have a fan speed control utility called Speedfan. I am seeing idle temps around 23 - 25 C and on full load the speed goes to 3000 MHz and the temp goes up to around 38-40 C. I do not know how the Shuttle ICE compares with other types of cooler, I do not think it is an especially powerful cooler, so you ought to be seeing comparable figures if your set up is halfway decent. It sounds like things are OK. The maximum allowed CPU temp for the AMD quads is around 70 -72 so I do not really think you need to stay away from gaming.

trevorpe
You need to start your own topic.@Broni
This was originally started by me, I'm just continuing on it or should I start a new topic again?

@ Salmon Trout
I can manage about 28 degrees celcius, idle, but when I try converting video my temps can go as high as 60 or more (I think... the Motherboard buzzer goes off and it's set for 60 and my monitoring program SEEMS to agree). I'm still thinking about a new cooler, the WAY I see it is that I'm sure it couldn't do any harm?