Author Topic: Temp??? (Read 380 times)

68DevilM · « **on:** July 09, 2005, 05:29:03 PM »

today i re-routed my cables inside my computer becuase my primary hard drive was running in the mid 50's celcius and i wanted to try and cool it down some, and it seemed to do the trick with it running in the mid 40's celcius now along with my video card running a couple degrees cooler too.

problem is now that my cpu used to always run at 40 celcius and now has jumped up to 44, idle and even peeked at 50 when i first started the computer after wireing but i tweeked my bios a little and turned the fan on full when temp reaches 43 degrees celcius.

am i worring too much or do i have a problem in the works?

anyone know what the ideal temp is for a AMD64 3700 2.4ghz running stock. with 3 80mm case fans should be around?

68DevilM · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:33:43 PM »

heres what my temps look like now under no load

Temperatures:
Motherboard 36 °C (97 °F)
CPU 44 °C (111 °F)
Aux 43 °C (109 °F)
WDC WD800JB-00JJA0 48 °C (118 °F)
WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 38 °C (100 °F)

Cooling Fans:
CPU 3668 RPM
Chassis 2679 RPM

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.50 V
+2.5 V 1.58 V
+3.3 V 3.22 V
+5 V 4.89 V
+12 V 12.10 V
+5 V Standby 5.03 V
VBAT Battery 3.07 V

buzkill · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:48:57 PM »

my 3000+ usually idles around 90-100f....but i've got 8 case fans moving air through my machine so im guessing you are right on par for a athlon 64....no where near high enough to do damage...matter of fact i noticed mine runs a little smoother at about 120f:aok

buzkill · « **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:50:25 PM »

and no..it does't sound like a shop-vac...i used all low vel. low noise fans

eagl · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2005, 07:23:18 PM »

You might have bumped the heatsink and ruined the heatsink/cpu interface. Remove heatsink, reapply paste, re-install heatsink.

68DevilM · « **Reply #5 on:** July 10, 2005, 01:00:40 AM »

did what you said eagle and removed the old thermal paste and reapllied a thin layer.... heres what im reading now idle.

Temperatures:
Motherboard 38 °C (100 °F)
CPU 43 °C (109 °F)
Aux 46 °C (115 °F)
WDC WD800JB-00JJA0 37 °C (99 °F)
WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 28 °C (82 °F)

Cooling Fans:
CPU 3590 RPM
Chassis 2679 RPM

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.50 V
+2.5 V 1.58 V
+3.3 V 3.23 V
+5 V 4.89 V
+12 V 12.10 V
+5 V Standby 5.03 V

another question?

this info is from everest home edition, but i noticed while in bios that it says that my cpu is around 49 celcius, why is there a difference? is everest crap?

eagl · « **Reply #6 on:** July 10, 2005, 01:09:22 AM »

Those temps sound ok.

Some mobos and monitoring programs don't read the bios values the same, so the readings may not always be the same. Also, when in the bios, the cpu is 100% loaded so that isn't an idle reading. WinXP and Linux send halt commands to the cpu at idle, and that will significantly lower cpu temps.

My A64 3200 reads 52Cish under load with the best air cooling solution on the market and it runs just fine like that, so either my temps are off or your numbers are ok, or maybe both

If your cpu temps exceed 56C under load, you might want to consider a better heatsink or a higher airflow (louder) cpu fan.

FWIW, my aux temp is probably a sensor between my memory sticks and it reads pretty high when running memory intensive programs. Fortunately my heatsink sticks out over the mem sticks so I get a little cooling that way.

68DevilM · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2005, 05:52:48 PM »

wierd!!!

just notcied that my a: drive light was on but had no disk in it.

so i put a disk and and it wouldnt reconize the disk so i tinkered a bit and turned the atx cable around and now it works and my cpu's back to running at 39-40 degress celsius.

was i shorting something out?

ohh wait now im down to 37 degrees under no load, looks like that cleaning and rewiring worked

yes!!!!!!!!