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Offline 68DevilM

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« 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?

Offline 68DevilM

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« 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

Offline buzkill

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« 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

Offline buzkill

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« 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

Offline eagl

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« 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.
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Offline 68DevilM

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« 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?

Offline eagl

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« 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.
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Offline 68DevilM

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« 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!!!!!!!!
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