XP2500+ OC'ed to 3200+ w/ Volcano 7+?

MeresinMeresin
edited September 2003 in Hardware
I'm just wondering if this could work, or if I'll have to run the little monster in dustbuster mode in order to keep my processor from baking. I'd sooner order a new HSF.

Just to give a general idea how the HSF performs now, I'm running an XP2000+ on a Shuttle AK32A and getting idle temps around 42C. Not sure what the temp is in my room, but it's around 75F. It's operating on it's medium setting, which translates to a little under 5,000 RPM. I used Arctic Silver for paste.

Not sure what other information you might need. Any suggestions/tips would be appreciated, as would any tutorials you might suggest on how to better cool a system. Thanks in advance. Kinda a general quest for information here, and for that I apologize. ;)

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    107°F on a 1.67GHz chip, eh. That's <i>decent</i>. Mind you, a lot of us with SK/SLK series coolers with ~50 CFM fans get 111°F on chips approximately 600MHz faster. You'll probably have to whip the Volcano into dustbuster mode to keep the chip from doing the bake and break. Volcano 7s never were very good CPU coolers, then again, no volcano ever was...And then "Never was very good" seems to typify Thermaltake on everything but a single fan they make. Heh.

    My suggestion? Thermlatake SmartFan II. Pot adjust up to some crazy 80 CFMs, and all the way down to 13 CFM. Strap it to a cheap sk-7 and you're ready to cool a chip up to 2.5GHz.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    You know how they got the name Volcano, right?
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    Because they melt the core! Oh bad joke. I feel retribution coming. Duck!
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    ;D

    Seriously, though... I think you'll be hearing some noise from that thing if you want to do this and keep decent temps.

    There's a reason why most people here will tell you to buy Thermalright instead of Thermaltake. Can you guess the reason? ;)
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Hehe.

    Well, I have decent temps with a V9. 2100+ @ 210 X 10.5 (not its max overclock, still bumping slowly) 1.79vcore. Ambient 19-20C. Fan turned one notch back, 46-4700 RPM, very bearable dB level. idle dunno, it NEVER idles. F@H 43C, ranging up a bit when it warms up, say 47C tops. Turning fan up to max only gains me 1.5 - 2C and the dB go off the 'wear ear protection' chart.

    On a side note, I have roughly 8 HSF combos for AMD here and the V9 for some reason makes absolutely the squarest contact with processor of any of them, it's really well engineered from that standpoint. Dunno if I got lucky or what.
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