CPU Running hot

[Friend of Bill]

Just get a different mobo and a P4. You'll be miles ahead of the cooling game with no performance hit (you will probably increase performance across the board). By the way, get the Northwood chip. It runs coooooool with stock heatsink and fan.

 

[Syrus]

And why in hells name would he want to buy a pentium?!?!?!?!

 

[Cosmin]

Favorite ! i respect this .

 

[bheagle]

cooling is nothing if you hate the chip your cooling....

and besides, with the cash he'll save with the AMD he can buy a water cooled system...


and still be faster!!
SO THERE!

 

[GoNz0]

Originally posted by UofEEE

ASUS A7V333-RAID

IDLE: 55C
LOAD: 65C

Yes, the fans are mounted the right way, and the only thing I can think of is that the thermal compound I put on isn't working right. It's driving me up the wall, and I don't know what to do. HELP!!

When i upgraded my friends board from an epox 8k7a+ to a asusA7V333 mobo the temp jumped up from 42 to 50 with an xp2000 chip, reason is the fact the a7v board has MP detection in the bios, allowing it to read the CPU temp from the CPU's internal diode giving a more true reading. before it was reading the airspace below the chip.
I upgraded from the epox8k7a to a epox 8k3a+ and had a simular rise from 39 to 46 with an xp1800 as i was reading from the CPU's diode on the new board as well. it kinda rips the cpu temps in half depending on how the temp is read.

As i have now in 2 cases seen the cpu temp rise with a new board using copper heatsinks in both pc's each time and extra cooling im not botherd that my chip reads true at 46 deg c as AMD state the temps as 48-58 for my chip.

(but next month if i get a good pay packet at work im getting 1 of those water cooled cases and all the gubbins so i can clock this bas***d and have a stupidly low temp )

Anyway from experience fitting an exhaust fan up the top of the case, will take a few deg c off that cpu temp. aim for the 48-58 range and your chip will be fine

 

[[CpK]Bastid]

forget water vapochill vapochill

lol