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| Thread ID: 41538 | 2004-01-14 07:44:00 | XP 2500+ too Hot | Gary_Nel (5113) | Press F1 |
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| 207347 | 2004-01-14 07:44:00 | Hi All Hope you can help me. I bought a computer last week. It has a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 motherboard, 512MB DDR RAM PC-333, ATI 9200SE 128 MB video card and an AMD 2500+ processor. It was put together for by a company in Auckland. When it arrived I found that the power leads for floppy drive and the CD-R were not plugged in and there were no drivers supplied for the serial hard-drive. The computer also arrived with the frontside bus set at 100MHz and I had to change this as well. I fixed these problems but now I find that the processor runs at 60C when idle and it has reached 74C when using quick fix on 200 pictures in Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album. This task is not as intensive as some of the tasks I could do on my old AMD Duron 800 computer but I am worried that if I push this new computer too hard it will overheat and that this could kill the CPU. As there were so many errors when the computer arrived my fear now is that The person that built this computer may not have installed the correct cooling for the CPU. How can I tell whether my computer has the correct type of heatsink and fan and if thermal paste was used? Any advice on what I should do will be appreciated. Gary_Nel |
Gary_Nel (5113) | ||
| 207348 | 2004-01-14 07:56:00 | Greetings and welcome to PressF1, CPU's always get hotter around Summer.. Ive had a friend just burn out a CPU, and we reakon we just saved a PC at work which was getting WAY to hot (Close to 85). The best thing to do would be invest in a Volcano9 or 11 CPU Heatsink/Fan. Ive got an OEM fan for my AthlonXP 1700+ which is noisey as hell and I can feel the heat still emitting from it. Im looking to buy one within the week. Hope this helps you Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 207349 | 2004-01-14 08:00:00 | I'm a little out of my league here, but congrats on the nice computer! First of all, what did you use to measure those temperatures of the CPU? Also, what kind of cooling is running in the computer . I know that the Athlon CPU can run at those high temperatures, but idle at 60 degrees is a little dubious . Might also want to give that company that assembled your PC a call and give them an earful, also ask them what they think . Cheers, Jag . |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 207350 | 2004-01-14 08:48:00 | Welcome to PressF1!!! :-) Now you are in Nelson and the company that assembled the PC is in AWKLAND. Awk!!!! Quite obviously the computer was not assembled correctly in the first place if power leads were not connected. For this reason I would suspect everything. Being as it is probably under warranty I would send it back to the assembler and point out the faults you have found so far. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 207351 | 2004-01-14 09:21:00 | Those temps are far too hot. Is the CPU fan still working? I wonder if it got shaken up on the trip down causing the cables to come unplugged and the heatsink to move. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 207352 | 2004-01-14 11:02:00 | Wat's up buddy? I have the same CPU as you got it a month ago . . . rit now it's running @ 3200+ with 1 . 7 volt going through it . I only have stock cooling and my temps are between 50 - 56 at load . . . which I consider to be on the hotside already . . . . so I think thats reasonable ground to suspect that something is not setup rit on ur system . Couple of things to consider . . . since it seems like the person who setup the comp for you didn't really have all the settings rit, it may be possible that he setted it at a wrong voltage?? The default voltage for ur processor is 1 . 65 Volt, it maybe worth ur time to check it out . Secondly, it could be that he installed substandard HSF on ur CPU?? Or maybe the HSF is not installed correctly, or maybe he forgot to apply thermal paste between the CPU and HSF . Just a couple of things to check, hope this helps : ) P . S . it is a Barton core rit? |
Kenshin (2501) | ||
| 207353 | 2004-01-14 11:21:00 | One thing tho... don't get a Volcano 9. Check this post... pressf1.pcworld.co.nz If you can't be stuffed it basically says volcanos are noisy, and thermaltake has become ****. I would say try making more airflow or drive to auckland and shove it up th... well you get the point. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 207354 | 2004-01-14 18:23:00 | I have the same CPU on a GA 7N 400 pro board, with a stock standard HSF that came with the CPU, the CPU runs at 38 - 40 degrees. If you don't want to send it back, and are happy to do it yourself, remove the HSF and take the tape off, clean all remnants off. Replace it with thermal paste ( DSE about $5 ) this dropped my CPU temp 5 degrees. Install two case fans at rear of computer sucking out ( DSE about $10 each ) Thats it. If you are at all unsure about this get a local computer shop to do it. |
Shiloh (2288) | ||
| 207355 | 2004-01-14 18:31:00 | Just gonna add my 2 cents here.. As has been said,you could remove it and such,but after scrapping off the thermal tape you then need to get some pure alcohol and clean the contact point on the cpu and the surface of the heatsink. then buy some quality thermal paste(its dirt cheap and in my experience much better then the dse stuff.I use artic ceramic grease myself)Rub some into the heatsink,then wipe off the excess,then apply a thin even layer onto the cpu(whatever the raised silver contract point is called,Its slipped my mind at the mo)Then mount the heatsink/fan onto the cpu. |
metla (154) | ||
| 207356 | 2004-01-14 18:50:00 | I think the temp of my CPU back up the quality of the DSE thermal paste. | Shiloh (2288) | ||
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