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| Thread ID: 44584 | 2004-04-23 11:58:00 | Overheating problem (70C +) on XP2800+ | KingWave (5517) | Press F1 |
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| 231631 | 2004-04-25 02:54:00 | > Read the thread P4 or AMD. You will see that your amd > can't be that hot. > Must ve imagination. :D > Jack Lol! Just what I was thinking... ;) Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 231632 | 2004-04-25 04:01:00 | I've started running Prime95 torture test on the cpu for half an hour to check on the temperatures. Easy Tune 4, which came with the motherboard shows the cpu at 61C Sisoft Sandra 2004 SP1 shows the cpu at 61C Motherboard Monitor 5 shows the cpu temp at 53C What am I supposed to believe?! :_| |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 231633 | 2004-04-25 05:30:00 | Not Microsoft Jester :D AMD :P |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 231634 | 2004-04-25 05:36:00 | > Not Microsoft Jester :D > > AMD :P I get microsoft.com when I clicked the link in your post though ?:| |
Jester (13) | ||
| 231635 | 2004-04-25 06:00:00 | Corrected url is AMD (139.95.253.214 3913) it may be a PDF file. | Gorela (901) | ||
| 231636 | 2004-04-25 06:19:00 | Thanks for pointing out the error Jester :D Looks like I somehow slipped in an extra http into the url :8} and that was causing the problem. Only Windows computers seem to get redirected to the home of Microsoft ?:| |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 231637 | 2004-04-27 12:34:00 | Well, I tried a 180 degree shift of the heatsink. (Wheres the little degree symbol font?? ) When I did that, the cpu booted at 78C, and started making beeping noises due to the warning I had if it went over 70C in the bios. I shut down the computer quite smartly! I took the heatsink off and realised the half of it was touching the die, and the other half wasn't. So I had the heatsink in the correct way the first time. Anyway I reapplied some thermal paste again, a slightly thicker layer than last time, and fired it back up. The computer now idles at 45-48C according to MBM5, but says 50-55C+ in Sisoft Sandra. Which reading is more correct????? I haven't really tortured it enough to get the max temperatures out of it. Thats still a little high, and I see in the forum theres another thread where a guy on stock cooling and has his XP2800+ overclocked to 2300Mhz and is only reaching temps of 41C. Thats insane in comparison. How does he do it. I still think the temps are a little too hot, so I might invest in some fans or something. A few questions though. Theres room for 2 fans on the front, and for 2 at the back. The two places near the back are near the cpu, and the places at the front are pretty isolated, near the hard drive. 1) Would I have intake fans on the front, and exhaust fans at the back? Or other way round? 2) If there is only one fan controller jumper thing on the motherboard, how can you get up to 4fans in them? |
KingWave (5517) | ||
| 231638 | 2004-04-27 12:49:00 | >1) Would I have intake fans on the front, and exhaust fans at the back? Or >other way round? >2) If there is only one fan controller jumper thing on the motherboard, how >can you get up to 4fans in them? Air should come in at the lower front, rise up through the case, over and past the cpu, and exhaust out the rear. I have found that more extraction is better than more incoming air. You want the heat out of the case, rather than introducing too much already warm air from the front (depending on where your case sits I guess). The other fans will run off your power supply's spare 12 volt connectors. Most fans have extra sockets on the plugs to piggyback other devices too. The motherboard doesn't monitor the speed of these fans. It is good to tie up the internal wires too, which helps the flow of air. I am intrigued how you couldn't figure out which way the heatsink went. The large glossy instruction sheet with the Gigabyte boards illustrate the process quite well, there is a 'step' along one side of the heatsink, which sits over the edge of the socket that is thicker and contains the lever bar mechanism. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 231639 | 2004-04-27 12:53:00 | A visual examination of the heatsink would have made it obvious which way to orientate it, Too late now buts its worth slotting away for any future tweaking. As to which program is reporting the correct temp?, no idea, they should be reading the same data so that’s a mystery The way the airflow is intended to work is in through the front and out the back, theoretically passing over and removing the hot air from the cpu. The fans run off the power supply, not the motherboard. Did you read the detailed instructions on the artic website for applying thermal paste? If not then i suggest you do. |
metla (154) | ||
| 231640 | 2004-04-27 12:55:00 | And do you have the unit sitting on carpet by anychance?,this can impede the airflow into the case. | metla (154) | ||
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