AMD black overheating

domc

domc

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Hello,

I'm looking for a bit of help. I recently bought off ebay a AMD athlon AM2 5000+ black edition. I installed it on my Abit AN-M2 board and its overheating before overclocking. I went out and bought a Zalman cooler today but its still running at 74degrees!!!

Can any of you shed any light as to why its doing this???

I running it with 2gb of ram and next to it is a xfx 8600gt and a wireless net card. Its all in a Thermaltake lanbox (a small case but plenty of fans and room still inside)

Thanks

DOm:rolleyes:
 
It shouldn't be too hot at 89W TDP.

Hmm... test the voltage isn't too high, or possibly apply some better thermal paste to see if the heat reduces.
 
I checked the voltage and the lowest my board can go down to is 1.30v is this ok.

What does the 89w TDP mean?
 
just checked my bios and in the section where you change cpu voltage you there is no auto for you to select.

Might try and find what is recommended voltage for them.
 
intresting, i fired up my htpc which has the same MB except its got HDMI output too.

Anyway its slightly newer and has a voltage of 1.250 that you can select.
How do i upgrade my bios to see if it adds more voltages that you can select.
 
When you say it was ''still'' running at 74 degrees, do you mean your temps didn't change at all when using a different heatsink?, if so, you may just have a fault temp sensor
 
anything over 60 degrees isn't good for an amd.

call me stupid but is it set to degrees celsius or fahrenheit?

just did the math, it would still be 23 degrees if not which would also be wrong :p


check the bios temps though, see if they're different if you're reading from core temp
 
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