Athlon 2200+ temperature

[myungk]

Hi there. My motherboard has a temperature sensor on it and when I start up my computer in the morning (after it has cooled down for the night), it says the cpu temp is 31C (I have an AthlonXp 2200+ with a thermaltake 7 cooler on it). After a while, my heatsink fan starts screaming like a banshee, so I decided to take another look at the cpu temp, and it says that it's at 61C. Now I don't know for sure, but I don't think this is a good thing. The cpu hasn't been modified or overclocked, and I have an intake fan at the front bottom as well as the outtake fan of my psu (350W). Any suggestions?

[p3rsian]

Holy **** !!!
thats really hot.
how many intake and outtake fans do you have ??
try some programs like vcool and cpuidle they bring the temp down about 9 degrees C

[bachviet]

That temperature is really high for an AXP 2200+ and TT Volcano 7. I have a 1700+ with Volcano 6Cu+. I have four 80mm case fans (2 in and 2 out) so the temperature is around 38-40C. Why don't you check the HSF and see if it sits properly!

[myungk]

I've got one intake fan (80mm at the front bottom of my case) and one outtake (in the powersupply). I have a feeling that my ide cables might be mucking things up (there are a fat lot of them running around) so I ordered some rounded ones. Also, how would I check to see if the heatsink is seated properly. Also, I didn't use any special thermal paste, just the little pat of thermal grease that was on the heatsink already. I think it seats correctly because once when I took the heatsink off the chip (this was before I used it extensively), there was a nice little die-sized imprint on the grease pat on the bottom of the sink. Also, I used vcool and it's at 52C now. But it says that the sys is running at 208C... this can't be right, can it? Thanks.

[zippyjuan]

If you took off the heat sink you may need to put on some more paste on it to gete a proper seal to radiate the heat. I am using a stock heatsink and fan with my 2400+ and it runs around 39C. No intake fan but two rear and one side pannel fan.

[myungk]

I read the directions at artic silver's website, and they said that once I had melted the little bit of paste at the bottom of my heatsink, that there was no way to remove it from the microscopif pits in the heatsink surface. What about my processor? Will laping my heatsink get the parafin out? Thanks.

[look_ma]

Well, I have a XP 1700 and I just last week put a volcano 7 heat sink and fan combo on (I run about 55 degree C at peek temp, but normally 48 degree Celsius). It was a used Volcano 7 so I had to remove the old stock thermal paste off of the chip and heat sink. Arctic Silver is the paste I used and it had some wonderful directions (make sure you buy the right stuff, there is some companies scamming the product using similar names). I used a really sharp blade to get off the old thermal compound, although the recommend a special cleaning solution. As mentioned in previous post having good airflow is important, I turned on my 2 side mounted 120mm that blow out right now and that dropped my temp about 7 degree F (I know they should be blowing into my case but right now i am too lazy to fix the whole airflow in this old ATX case). Also I modded my volcano 7 fan's sensor using instructions from this website: http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/a...ano7Tip_1.html .
All you do is stick your thermal sensor for the fan deeper into the heat sink. I got about 5-degree F out of that mod, however the noise became louder. Good luck too you.

[delmore]

My XP 2400+ retail version with the stock fan runs at a temp of 107F/41.7C in a room with temperature of around 70F.

[Kevster]

My overclocked and watercooled XP2100+ system never goes above 96F at peak with Seti@home running for a few hours. It normally operates between 89F and 94F.

[look_ma]

oh yeah, i forgot to add my room temp is about 85-90 degrees F.

[Kevster]

Originally posted by look_ma
oh yeah, i forgot to add my room temp is about 85-90 degrees F.

Ok - that will have a BIG effect on your cooling! Using conventional air cooling you will never be able to achieve anything lower than your room temperature, and even then you won't be close to that temperature.

Hell, if you really want to overclock and stay cool, I'd recommend the Prometeia cooling system - it's integrated, fits just below or on top of your existing system, and will drop it to a nice -35C. Then again, it is $629 (but you can use it over-and-over again with the same results).