temps

cellstar21

hi guys, im new at this forum. i was wondering aobut temps... i have a stock heatsink in my pc, it is 114 F. and the system is 73 F. are these good temps? i recently ordered a new heatsink fan, heres a pic...

http://www.case-mod.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=2_45_106&products_id=659

do you really think this would help lower it some, my processor is a Pentium 2.8. and i can get it up to 3ghz... and the temps seem fine, but after that it seems to get kinda hot,, between 129 F. and 130 F.. just wondering what you think. thanks

airoh69

Depends on what p4 2.8 you have. Is it a northwood or a prescott. If it a prescott Thats normal with stock cooler. If you want a good cooler and you don`t care about noise get the thermaltake volacano 7+.
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/volcano/rs/a1254.htm
It droped my temps by 8c when in full speed

cellstar21

airoh69 wrote:

Depends on what p4 2.8 you have. Is it a northwood or a prescott. If it a prescott Thats normal with stock cooler. If you want a good cooler and you don`t care about noise get the thermaltake volacano 7+.
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/volcano/rs/a1254.htm
It droped my temps by 8c when in full speed

it's a Prescott. wow, that is big. what do you have?

airoh69

i also have the prescott 2.8 and i bought that cpu cooler. I also bought the thermaltake vm7000a case and working on full speed on all fans i get 38c idle and max of 50-52c at full load (more than 2 hours of gaming)

cellstar21

crap, i already ordered the top one,, oops. oh well, ill see how it is. and if its not good, ill change it.. what are some of ur mods? bseides ur fans?

airoh69

basically nothing else. I just tied up my wires so they allow a good air flow in the case and now i am building something like a pump that will come from the cpu fan outside the case so it takes air directly from outside. (The case air is more hot).
p.s. The boxes of pringles can be very useful sometimes

cellstar21

like an intake thing, direclty from outside? thats cool. heh, have u tried using those like aluminum tubes they sell at Volkswagen Bug places? those like ones u can bend and stretch? those seem cool too. whats the difference between a Northwood and a Prescott?

airoh69

cellstar21 wrote:

whats the difference between a Northwood and a Prescott?

A northwood has 512kb l2 cache and prescott has 1mb l2 cache. Thats one of the main differences. Also due to some extra "stuff" that the prescott has in the cpu it causes it to produce more heat.In speed supposly they have the same speed but from own experience i would say that a prescott 2.8 has at least the speed of a 3.0ghz northwood.

cellstar21

I bought the CPU cooling fan from the Link I Posted at the TOP. i placed the end part facing the back of my pc, and the front part towards the front. the two back fans are exhaust fans, and the temps are almost the exact same. which way should i face the fan? i placed an adequate anount of the thermal paste, and everything seems fine, but the temps read from 111-114 F idle for my cpu. i dont know what direction to put it in. this is with the fan speed set to the highest setting. how do you recommend i place the fan? Thanks. i think i might need a different fan.

airoh69

check where the cooler gets the air out. That part should be facing at the side where the exaust fan is so all the hot air can get out of the case. Or maybe the cooler is not big enough. My normal temps are 100f idle and up to 112 full load (oc`d to 3.1ghz)

cellstar21

i recently purchased a tube of Arctic Silver 5, and the temps are the same, and i know that it says there is a break in period, do you know how long it might take to actually settle in? and about how thick does the application need to be?

youvegotjermz

don't make it too thick, just a couple of dots and spread it with a razor blade that works the best and no mess

rapture

If you temps are still the same after all this experimenting then you may want to look at some BIOS updates for your mobo. It may be that the board is reporting incorrect temperatures.

Its a lot more common than you would think with onboard temp sensors.

airoh69

don`t put too much thermalpaste as it may burn your cpu. What i do is to apply some thermalpaste at the middle of the cpu. Put the cooler on and then remove it to see if it was enough or not. Also what kind of mobo do you have????

cellstar21

it's an msi pt880 neo socket 478. here's a pic of the amount it had After i placed the fan on it and it spread... is that too much? it's not too thick.

airoh69

How thick is it???? Normally when you place the cooler on the thermalpaste after you remove the cooler must be no more than 2mm thick. if it is check you that the cooler fits tight and there is no space even without the thermalpaste

rapture

The Nvidia chipset AMD 64 version of that board has problems with reporting correct temps, maybe there are issues with the intel board too.

cellstar21

the paste is about .5mm thick. and i wiped it off and applied a smaller amount this time. about the size of a nickel around. the temps are the same. i think i might leave it alone for a while. or i can shove my comp in the freezer for some time out.

adham

I always evenly spread the artic silver 5 over the entire heat spreader, not just the center. If your compter isn't exhibiting signs of the proc overheating, than I would just run with it.