I just thought I would share this with you all.
I replaced a XP90C with a Big Typhoon a short while ago as I was not too impressed with the XP90'S cooling(even with a 120mm fan!) and then sure enough I see that my temps are relatively high still.
I have a Opteron 148@2950 with 1.52volts going through it and under load I was seeing over 50C sometimes as high as 54C,it was idling at 38C.
When I fitted the BT I was a little wary about doing the securing nuts up too tight so was probably over cautious and didnt tighten them enough.Grabbed a 5mm socket from my toolbox this evening when I left work and I have just tightened the retaining nuts up quite a few turns and found its lowered my idle/load temps quite a lot.
Now it reads 35C idle,45c load.
This is on a DFI NF4 board btw which on which you have to fiddle around with the mountings slightly I believe to get the BT to fit unlike other boards.
Obviously this may not apply to everyone and I would not reccomend it to anyone who has taken the IHS off their A64 chip as I guess it would be quite possible to crush the core.
Note nothing else within the case has changed at all.I am still using the same fans etc and I have not turned my heating down(I know the ambient temp is a lot higher than it has been today for quite a while).
Steve
I replaced a XP90C with a Big Typhoon a short while ago as I was not too impressed with the XP90'S cooling(even with a 120mm fan!) and then sure enough I see that my temps are relatively high still.
I have a Opteron 148@2950 with 1.52volts going through it and under load I was seeing over 50C sometimes as high as 54C,it was idling at 38C.
When I fitted the BT I was a little wary about doing the securing nuts up too tight so was probably over cautious and didnt tighten them enough.Grabbed a 5mm socket from my toolbox this evening when I left work and I have just tightened the retaining nuts up quite a few turns and found its lowered my idle/load temps quite a lot.
Now it reads 35C idle,45c load.
This is on a DFI NF4 board btw which on which you have to fiddle around with the mountings slightly I believe to get the BT to fit unlike other boards.
Obviously this may not apply to everyone and I would not reccomend it to anyone who has taken the IHS off their A64 chip as I guess it would be quite possible to crush the core.
Note nothing else within the case has changed at all.I am still using the same fans etc and I have not turned my heating down(I know the ambient temp is a lot higher than it has been today for quite a while).
Steve