Hot! Hot! Hot!

[Buddy]

Make sure you have good thermal transfer between your CPU and the heatsink. I prefer Artic Silver 3 over regular compounds. Remember more is not always better. My Athlon XP2100+ w/ Volcano 7 + heatsink keeps my temperature around 34 degrees celsius. I also have a Raid 0 setup w/dual Western Digital 120 Gig 7200 RPM hard drives, Geforce 3 video card, Dual maxtor 60 gig drives, DVD, and Plextor 40x CDRW in the same case. Follow the instructions at the web site for Artic Silver.

 

[Remailer]

hmmm... Cool it down!

 

[Cosmin]

Buddy - a link can be really usefull .

 

[frothymilkshake]

Originally posted by catch23
The P4 stays cool because it stops working when it gets warm.

Huh? What do you mean?

 

[Grinder714]

Originally posted by catch23
Burst Technology...

When the Pentium 4 starts heating up due to load and/or ambient temperature...it will use less CPU resources to complete tasks to cool the CPU down...

If it gets hot, you could very well be using 1/2 of your CPU speed.

1/2 rofl, thats a stretch. More like a small fraction that you'll never notice.

 

[jonocainuk]

Originally posted by catch23
Burst Technology...

When the Pentium 4 starts heating up due to load and/or ambient temperature...it will use less CPU resources to complete tasks to cool the CPU down...

If it gets hot, you could very well be using 1/2 of your CPU speed.

aye... most ppl with athlons usually do say that about pentiums

 

[mbunny]

CPUIdle causes performance degradation... I run F@H(Folding@Home) 24/7. I tried CPUIdle for about 5 minutes but then i realised that i was crunching a lot less than i used to. Tested this with a Distributed.Net crunch benchmark and true enough i was doing a **** load less.

Did a Ctrl+Shift+Esc... There i see CPUIdle eating up 54% of my idle processes. Yay for limiting the amount of calculations my cpu can do. If i wanted to cool it down that way i'd just turn off F@H. (Yay... a software version of the P4)

Small fraction my left nut... A slight underclock will not greatly reduce your temperatures... if your running at 50 (the P4's seem to kick in around then) it has to underclock (burst technology as they call it) so that the max amount of cpu cycles is reduced thus reducing its workload and cooling it down.

While this might be a useful technique... You paying an exorbitant price for a processor that is easily matched by an AthlonXP. The tradeoff for a cheaper chip is that you need to invest a tad more on a decent HSF.

I'm currently running the HHC-001 (the copper heatsink with the heat pipes by CoolerMaster) with a fandaptored 80mm Sunon to reduce noise and guess what... High 40's full load. My case airflow ain't that great... 1 at front 1 at back... so this is decent for what i paid for it. (about $70 Australian so halve it for US and 1/3(?) it for pounds) why do you guys have the stronger currency???

Now... i paid $189 for the AthlonXP 1900+.... $70 for the HSF... $20 for the fandaptor + fan.

Thats only $279... Whereas a P4 1.9 costs $365 and the XP 1900+ STILL outperforms it. go figure...

Lets pay for the brand name people =)

The quad pumped P4 loses to the double pumped AthlonXP... heh...

 

[GT2000]

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

There's the link for AS3 instructions (also works with I and II or course).

I just got my supply in the mail last week, did lower all temps by 1c, I'm sure it'll be more once I get a new case that'll allow for better airflow..

 

[Grinder714]

Heres a interesting post I found in another Thread...by SeekandDestroy

Worth the read... http://www.xp-erience.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=124930#post124930

 

[leebobs]

A CPU can run at 100 Degree's but then it becomes unstable. Solution to overheating...
a) Get a Via (Cyrix).
b) Get a bigger heatsink plus case fans
c) Fit watercooling
d) Get a bigger case

 

[Grinder714]

e) Get a Pentium HEHE

 

[gonaads]

Get a Commador 64

 

[Grinder714]

My INTELlivision really ran cool.

 

[Grinder714]

sorry that last post may have been before most of youns times.

 

[gonaads]

I still have mine

 

[Grinder714]

ME too


Its currently keeping the dust off the floor in the attic.

 

[Gouk]

Strange but I updated my BIOS to v1011 (ASUS A7V333) and my CPU idles at 53c.

I know its early in the morning now but in mid-day the CPU idles at 53c and I havent checked under full load yet.

Strange

PS: I stopped using CPUIdle too and can you check the figures such as the vcore etc in the attachment and tell me if they are ok.

 

[beatlesdb]

You need to try to get the hot air out of the case - perhaps investing in an alluminiun case might be an idea- taking the cover off the case may not do anything to cool it - it makes the fans work harder.
You need a case with good airflow like the Lian cases - the idea is to have the air move from the front of the case to the back - carring with it the hot air extruded from the CPU fan (you need to get two case fans).

 

[Gouk]

56c under full load.

 

[gonaads]

Mine is at 34°C as I type this out.

Full load it's at 46°C