Barton 2500+ Operating Temps - is this ok?

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I've overclocked my Barton 2500+ to nothing staggering - it's at 200 x 10 so 2 GHz. However, at idle, my ABit monitor program says that the temp is 57 degrees C. This to me seems very high, especially since the case is off and there's a case fan. The cooler is a fairly decent aftermarket Speeze job with large fan and copper heatsink.

Does something seem wrong here as with an overlock of only 200MHz I wouldn't expect such high temps. If I take it any higher and play a game the machine shuts down with a high/low siren type beeping. I've even disabled temp-related shutdown. Voltage is slightly higher than stock at 1.675V.

Thanks for any opinions. Perhaps I need to check heatsink seating?
 
Try reseating the heatsink and if that doesn't work it may be a problem with the thermal diode. I ran my XP3200 @ 1.8V so 1.675V shouldn't give any problems.

Oh and try getting some good silver thermal paste like Arctic Silver 5 or the new OCZ one. :cool:
 
bbreezeuk said:
voltage seems very high considering the chip
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The stock voltage is 1.65?? Are you sure you aren't getting confused with the 2500+ Mobile version?

Anyway thanks for the answers. The thermal paste I'm using is Aeromaster stuff. No idea if it's any good - I'm starting to wonder if I've put it on too thickly.
 
Putting it on too thickly will certainly have an effect.Good tip for putting it on,get a bit of clingfilm & put it on your finger,then use a tiny amount of paste on the cpu,you can spead it out very thinly & evenly this way ;)

Rob
 
Rob43 said:
Putting it on too thickly will certainly have an effect.Good tip for putting it on,get a bit of clingfilm & put it on your finger,then use a tiny amount of paste on the cpu,you can spead it out very thinly & evenly this way ;)

Rob
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Gotta try that!

Always used the good ol credit cards. Still took me around 5 minutes to spread the stuff though.
 
Barton temps

I used to manage to get my Barton 2500 running at 2400MHz at 1.775 volts on an artic cooling fan (one with the blue light, cant remember the model) and some artic silver compound. Prime95'd for about 18hrs no problem. Used to max out at 51C. Somethings gone flop with my crappy NF2 gigabyte board now though so it won't let me mod the bios beyond stock.. lol. oh well. it's now idling at 27C and 35C under load but then that is the stock 1.83gig and stock 1.65V.
Dunno what you have in the way of case cooling but i stuck one of those amber 120cm cooling fans on the back and I reckon it took every temp in my pc down about 5C on average, and i can't even hear it over my X850XT which is a noisey bugger. Sooo tempted to replace the stock cooler on it.
 
pegasus1 said:
XP-M 2500 Barton core at 1.7V on air at 2300mhz and 39C idle in a very warm room.
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That's wonderful, but as I said earlier in the thread, mine is not a XP-M!!! :)

Sounds like I need to re-seat and have another go. Possible BIOS update too to make sure the temps are accurate. Somethings gotten worse because it used to run at 2200MHz and never tip 50 degrees C.
 
mine is a barton desktop kqyha,

my day to day setting is 220*11 with 1.725vcore in bios (which is 1.68 in mbm5).

some of these things can rock. the temps are very low and my case is pretty much silent
 
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