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I just built a PC with the following specs:
Gigabyte 7N400E-L SKT A - NVNf2 Ultra ATX Sound LAN USB 2.0 REtail Box
512mb DDR400 Crucial
AMD ATHLON XP2500+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM
SpeezeVulturspin AMD CPU Cooler XP3200+ Low Noise
Panasonic Floppy Drive 1.44mb - OEM
Philips 15.1 TFT 150P3E 0.29 61khz Tco99 Ergo Base Height Adjustable
Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive - OEM
D-Link 56kbps PCI Bus Hardware-based Analog Modem (Rockwell Connexant Chipset)
Samsung 16x48 IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Retail Box
Samsung 52x32x52x IDE Drive - OEM
Basically, my Barton is going at 64oC Idle!!! Thats hotter than my Palamino.
The only thing I can think of is the fact I have no Fan Exhausts to remove the hot air, even though from cold it boots instantly at 50oC, hotter than my Pally at load! The Case is one I got last year, a standard beige one, with no fans.
Can someone give me some suggestions of what to do?
Gigabyte 7N400E-L SKT A - NVNf2 Ultra ATX Sound LAN USB 2.0 REtail Box
512mb DDR400 Crucial
AMD ATHLON XP2500+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM
SpeezeVulturspin AMD CPU Cooler XP3200+ Low Noise
Panasonic Floppy Drive 1.44mb - OEM
Philips 15.1 TFT 150P3E 0.29 61khz Tco99 Ergo Base Height Adjustable
Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive - OEM
D-Link 56kbps PCI Bus Hardware-based Analog Modem (Rockwell Connexant Chipset)
Samsung 16x48 IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Retail Box
Samsung 52x32x52x IDE Drive - OEM
Basically, my Barton is going at 64oC Idle!!! Thats hotter than my Palamino.
The only thing I can think of is the fact I have no Fan Exhausts to remove the hot air, even though from cold it boots instantly at 50oC, hotter than my Pally at load! The Case is one I got last year, a standard beige one, with no fans.
Can someone give me some suggestions of what to do?
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I'll not take that personally.
The guy who got 31,000 on 3D Mark 2001 was like 44.
The guy who got 31,000 on 3D Mark 2001 was like 44.
Pff, I don't bother messing around with hardware anymore. In fact, you could say I have matured.
Icarus wrote:
> - Improve ambient ventilation
> - buy more fans
> - make sure contact between CPU and heatsink is good (use Arctic
> Silver 3 paste)
> - use watercooling kit
> - sell PC and buy a Hush PC
Move with the times Icky! We are on Arctic Silver 5 now! And Ceramique for those who have issues with Silver.
But yes that should be my next point:
6) Don't use a lot of thermal paste. It should be extremely thin amounts, only enough to fill in the tiny ridges on the heatsink.
7) Use a good thermal paste. Generic stuff you sometimes get with a heatsink is of dubious efficiency.
> - Improve ambient ventilation
> - buy more fans
> - make sure contact between CPU and heatsink is good (use Arctic
> Silver 3 paste)
> - use watercooling kit
> - sell PC and buy a Hush PC
Move with the times Icky! We are on Arctic Silver 5 now! And Ceramique for those who have issues with Silver.
But yes that should be my next point:
6) Don't use a lot of thermal paste. It should be extremely thin amounts, only enough to fill in the tiny ridges on the heatsink.
7) Use a good thermal paste. Generic stuff you sometimes get with a heatsink is of dubious efficiency.
Ok with such major heat issues there are a few things to consider.
1) Does the case have plenty of room to breathe as it were? By that, I mean is there space round the vents on the case?
2) Fit some fans. One at the top and back to blow hot air out, and one at the bottom and front to suck cold air in.
3) Bigger better faster heatsink and fan. But remember, no matter how good a heatsink and fan you have, the lowest temperature you could have would be the case temperature. And to lower that you need to suck in cold air to replace the hot air which you blow out.
4) Rounded IDE cables are better for airflow.
5) A small case is going to heat up quite a bit more than a big case.
1) Does the case have plenty of room to breathe as it were? By that, I mean is there space round the vents on the case?
2) Fit some fans. One at the top and back to blow hot air out, and one at the bottom and front to suck cold air in.
3) Bigger better faster heatsink and fan. But remember, no matter how good a heatsink and fan you have, the lowest temperature you could have would be the case temperature. And to lower that you need to suck in cold air to replace the hot air which you blow out.
4) Rounded IDE cables are better for airflow.
5) A small case is going to heat up quite a bit more than a big case.
There is no way the barton can cold boot at 50°C unless you have bodged sticking the heatsink on, or you havent connected the heatsink fan. Or the thermal probe is messed up.
- Improve ambient ventilation
- buy more fans
- make sure contact between CPU and heatsink is good (use Arctic Silver 3 paste)
- use watercooling kit
- sell PC and buy a Hush PC
- buy more fans
- make sure contact between CPU and heatsink is good (use Arctic Silver 3 paste)
- use watercooling kit
- sell PC and buy a Hush PC
I just built a PC with the following specs:
Gigabyte 7N400E-L SKT A - NVNf2 Ultra ATX Sound LAN USB 2.0 REtail Box
512mb DDR400 Crucial
AMD ATHLON XP2500+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM
SpeezeVulturspin AMD CPU Cooler XP3200+ Low Noise
Panasonic Floppy Drive 1.44mb - OEM
Philips 15.1 TFT 150P3E 0.29 61khz Tco99 Ergo Base Height Adjustable
Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive - OEM
D-Link 56kbps PCI Bus Hardware-based Analog Modem (Rockwell Connexant Chipset)
Samsung 16x48 IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Retail Box
Samsung 52x32x52x IDE Drive - OEM
Basically, my Barton is going at 64oC Idle!!! Thats hotter than my Palamino.
The only thing I can think of is the fact I have no Fan Exhausts to remove the hot air, even though from cold it boots instantly at 50oC, hotter than my Pally at load! The Case is one I got last year, a standard beige one, with no fans.
Can someone give me some suggestions of what to do?
Gigabyte 7N400E-L SKT A - NVNf2 Ultra ATX Sound LAN USB 2.0 REtail Box
512mb DDR400 Crucial
AMD ATHLON XP2500+ 333MHZ FSB 512 L2 Cache Barton CPU - OEM
SpeezeVulturspin AMD CPU Cooler XP3200+ Low Noise
Panasonic Floppy Drive 1.44mb - OEM
Philips 15.1 TFT 150P3E 0.29 61khz Tco99 Ergo Base Height Adjustable
Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive - OEM
D-Link 56kbps PCI Bus Hardware-based Analog Modem (Rockwell Connexant Chipset)
Samsung 16x48 IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Retail Box
Samsung 52x32x52x IDE Drive - OEM
Basically, my Barton is going at 64oC Idle!!! Thats hotter than my Palamino.
The only thing I can think of is the fact I have no Fan Exhausts to remove the hot air, even though from cold it boots instantly at 50oC, hotter than my Pally at load! The Case is one I got last year, a standard beige one, with no fans.
Can someone give me some suggestions of what to do?
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