Author Topic: Upgraded my personal room heater (Read 950 times)

bloom25 · « **on:** August 05, 2001, 12:02:00 AM »

Er, I mean computer. (Which sure warms up the area of the room it's in.)

I went from a Tbird 700 to a Tbird 1300. I'd previously overclocked the 700 to 927 Mhz so to keep from feeling like a weenie I overclocked the 1300 a whopping 13 Mhz to 1313 Mhz.

For $150 my CPU benchmarks easily beat the 1.5 GHz P4 in Sandra.

In addition I'll be saving lots of money on our heating bills this winter.

(For those wondering the temperature with a CoolerMaster EP5-6I11 with stock fan after 2 hours of AH offline is 56 C, warm, but still OK. )

Badboy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2001, 05:25:00 PM »

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Originally posted by bloom25:
Er, I mean computer. (Which sure warms up the area of the room it's in.)

I went from a Tbird 700 to a Tbird 1300. I'd previously overclocked the 700 to 927 Mhz so to keep from feeling like a weenie I overclocked the 1300 a whopping 13 Mhz to 1313 Mhz.

For $150 my CPU benchmarks easily beat the 1.5 GHz P4 in Sandra.

In addition I'll be saving lots of money on our heating bills this winter.

(For those wondering the temperature with a CoolerMaster EP5-6I11 with stock fan after 2 hours of AH offline is 56 C, warm, but still OK. )

Hi Bloom25,

I've been overclocking a Tbird 1.4 to 1.5 and right now the room temp here is a whopping 30c and the chip is at 57c last week it was hotter and the room temp went up 3 degrees so the chip was at 60c and I dropped it back to 1.4 because I thought that was a little too hot. Just how hot can these things go without a problem? Any idea what the maximum safe temp is for them?

Badboy

skernsk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2001, 06:36:00 PM »

I have the same 1.3 bloom

I am running at 70C

bloom25 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2001, 07:01:00 PM »

The cooler the better. About 60 C is the highest I would let my system run at continuously. The chip itself (according to AMD) on the >1.2 Tbirds is capable of enduring 95 C for short periods! On most of the Athlon systems I've seen if the temp gets above 65C or so they are not very stable in 3d games.

I would prefer my Tbird to run at around 40 C idle and 50C under the heavest load, but that requires a huge and loud heatsink to do so.

As a general rule when I mount a heatsink to an Athlon I remove that thermal pad glued onto them and replace it with some Artic Silver 2 heatsink compound. This gives somewhat lower temps, and allows the heatsink to be removed without it glueing itself to the chip.

funkedup · « **Reply #4 on:** August 06, 2001, 01:48:00 PM »

Get case fans! I've got 80 mm's front and rear, and my 1333 runs 48 C max with the cheap bellybutton cooler that Mwave.com slapped on the CPU for me.

skernsk · « **Reply #5 on:** August 06, 2001, 04:30:00 PM »

I'm getting case fans front and back tommorow funked..I hope that fixes it.

bloom25 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2001, 02:43:00 AM »

Yep, 2 case fans are really needed for fast Athlons. One pulling air in in the front, the one in the back pushing it out.

Another small tip that can make a difference is to route your ribbon cables where they don't obstruct the airflow as much. Tuck the excess into an empty drive bay and maybe use a cable tie to bundle up the excess.

Also, don't butt your system right up against a wall, leave a couple inches minimum on all sides for airflow.