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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: bloom25 on August 05, 2001, 12:02:00 AM
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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. :D
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. )
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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. :D
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
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I have the same 1.3 bloom
I am running at 70C :eek:
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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.
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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.
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I'm getting case fans front and back tommorow funked..I hope that fixes it.
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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.