Author Topic: cpu cooling (Read 872 times)

-ammo- · « **on:** August 07, 2002, 10:34:14 PM »

My athlon 1.4 (XP) started out running in the 40-47 degree delcious range, but recently it is more common for it to get into the high 50's when running AH. Just yesterday my high temp alarm went off telling me I reached the 60 degree celcious mark. Temporarily I took the side and face off the case to get more ventilation.

I want to replace my volcano 5 with something more effective, but then again I dont want to go with water cooling or something else very expensive. Any reccomendations? Woluld 60 degrees celcious bother you?

Staga · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2002, 11:57:18 PM »

Zalman heatsinks with 80mm fans. I'd buy one but I'm looking parts for water cooling.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a94.shtml

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2002, 01:48:20 AM »

60 C isn't dangerous, but it's close to the limits for practicality. What worries me is that the temps keep rising.

The Volcano 6 might perform a little better. I haven't used the Zalman "flower" coolers, but I was looking at one and they look interesting.

Gunthr · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2002, 05:53:49 AM »

Something's going on there, Ammo. Maybe the fan is starting to fail.

I was thinking my next cooler will be the Alpha Pal 8045 with an 80mm fan. I don't think there is a better mounting system, and it reportedly performs well. Its big, so you might check compatibility with your mobo.

Alpha Pal 8045

Staga · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2002, 06:21:31 AM »

I was using Volcano 6Cu (copper heart) earlier and that was noisy as heck.
Next one (on the comp. now) is having pretty much similar heat-sink (little bigger) but it's having a 80mm fan with less RPM but IMO it's still too loud.

-lynx- · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2002, 10:49:54 AM »

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I haven't used the Zalman "flower" coolers, but I was looking at one and they look interesting.

Great stuff they are - now the noisiest part of my rig is the fan on a video card

mason22 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2002, 12:17:40 PM »

make sure the heat sink is cleaned of dust too. mine builds up a ton over time.

you can never have too many case fans btw. ask fatty!

Fatty · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2002, 12:32:25 PM »

Lotta fan noise adds to immersion!

Animal · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2002, 12:56:24 PM »

I am running an Athlon XP 1600+ overclocked to 1.6Ghz (152 FSB x 10.5mp)

My temperatures usually hang around 45c idle and 48c full load, running an Alpha 8045 + Sunon 80mm fan (AWESOME heatsink).

Just today while playing AH, my PC hanged. When I rebooted and checked the bios, the temperature was 80c. I checked the case in disbelief, and the CPU fan was stuck!

I quickly turned the PC off and fixed the problem, temperatures back to normal. What amazed me was that the CPU survived up to 80c+, and even ran stable until it reached almost 90c

Lesson learned, NEVER turn off Motherboard Monitor and its very useful high temperature alarm.

Turbot · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2002, 01:36:59 PM »

AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/23794.pdf

-ammo- · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2002, 06:40:30 PM »

bought this loud thing, but it did what it was advertised to do, it dtropped my temps under load to the mid 40's (C). Was at teh local COMP USA:)

http://www.antec-inc.com/f_reference.html

sprint · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2002, 02:27:26 AM »

Try some simple KISS ENGINEERING..> get a can of compressed air and blow the "dust bunnies" away. Then go to the next step if you have to.

47C = 116.6F
60C = 140.0F

sprint

Staga · « **Reply #12 on:** August 11, 2002, 08:02:40 AM »

CPU temperatures in my computer (AMD Thunderbird 1,4GHz/A7M266) are 55c idle and 59c when running 20 Pifast tests.
Heatsink/fan is Tiger Miprocool II.
Now the fan is sucking air out from HS; I'll chance the direction of airflow later to see if it lowers the temperatures.

Edit: Changed the direction of flow; no changes to temps.

Gunthr · « **Reply #13 on:** August 11, 2002, 10:00:19 AM »

Staga, did directions say to mount the fan to pull air off the heatsink? I bet you will see better efficiency blowing air down over the cooling fins. I haven't tested this, I just have feeling...

Animal · « **Reply #14 on:** August 11, 2002, 12:17:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunthr
Staga, did directions say to mount the fan to pull air off the heatsink? I bet you will see better efficiency blowing air down over the cooling fins. I haven't tested this, I just have feeling...

Depending on the design.
My Alpha is meant to have the fan sucking air out, if you reverse it you will gain a few degrees.