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rite i have a standard clocked amd athalon xp 3000

at the moment the cpu is running 55C and motherboard 40C

this seems extremely high to me so i've put my self a new aircool setup together from my old 1 which is some akasa copper based aluminium heatsink with a 80mm fan with led's

this is the new setup

Thermalright SLK-700

with this fan

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-005-DE&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=818

and im not sure if this fan comes with a molex connector or not so just incase i orderd this as well

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-007-GE

and to top it off some arctic silver 5 from egay.

do you think this should drop my tempreture substantially???

let me know asap plz..

was going to use a coolermaster aquagate, but it went out my price range on egay.
 
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Should make a reasonably good difference.

55C is about the limit for the Athlons - much higher and they start to suffer. Is that idle or full load?

The motherboard temp of 40C (I assume this refers to the Northbridge) is OK, but not brilliant. However that HSF etc won't do much to cool it - you'd need a NB specific cooler for that.

Jon

PS. I think the link to the heatsink counts as a competitor, so it would be a good idea to remove that ASAP.
 
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Should make a reasonably good difference.

55C is about the limit for the Athlons - much higher and they start to suffer. Is that idle or full load?

The motherboard temp of 40C (I assume this refers to the Northbridge) is OK, but not brilliant. However that HSF etc won't do much to cool it - you'd need a NB specific cooler for that.

Jon

PS. I think the link to the heatsink counts as a competitor, so it would be a good idea to remove that ASAP.
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its using vista n internet explorer.........

im not sure if thats northbridge but i assume it is im using mbm5 to monitor the temp.

i dont get what u mean by a competitor.... but changed it to the name of the h/s
 
So nearly idle then. Yep that is far too warm, and that new HSF setup should sort that out quite well :)

You might find that the extra airflow in the case created by the new HSF will help keep that Northbridge a tad cooler. How is it cooled at the moment? Active or passive?

Another thing you should look at is your ambient case temps - if there's not enough airflow through the case then your temps won't drop much, even with the new HSF.

As far as a competitor, the rules state you can't link to other sites which are competitors of OcUK, which that one was. But you've changed it, so all is good :cool:

Jon
 
think the northbridge is passive, it just has a heatsink attached to it.

the case is cooled the following way

1 80mm side fan

2 80mm rear fans blowing out of the case

did have 2 80mm fans at the front but they did naff all other than fill the case with dust.

only downside i can think of is maybe the psu is heating the hsf.

as it has a 12cm fan pointing at it......

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heard that arctic cooling can drop temps substantially on its own.
 
Are you sure it's blowing air at the CPU? Normally the 12cm fans on PSUs take air in from the case, and there's usually another 8cm fan to blow it out the back of the case.

Do you have any readings in mbm5/Everest etc. of ambient case temperature?

Jon
 
well all arrived and idle is now 41-42 compared to 60 when i took my heatsink n fan off

used the thermal grease that came with it untill my arctic silver turns up.


but using stress prime now while using net and the temp is only 44c so far.

gotta love the sound of living in a airport also lol

i put the fan on the table to test it and it flew across the table lol

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Glad to see your temps are a lot better, but edit out that sweary!

Secondly, your temps are good and that HSF is obviously well seated, so personally I wouldn't bother re-doing it with Arctic Silver. I believe the effort and possibility of it not seating as well is not worth the 1-2C difference you might gain.

Jon
 
GeForce said:
Should make a reasonably good difference.

55C is about the limit for the Athlons - much higher and they start to suffer. Is that idle or full load?

The motherboard temp of 40C (I assume this refers to the Northbridge) is OK, but not brilliant. However that HSF etc won't do much to cool it - you'd need a NB specific cooler for that.

Jon

PS. I think the link to the heatsink counts as a competitor, so it would be a good idea to remove that ASAP.
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not true my athlon xp runs at 60-70c on load
 
well mines socket A so.........

im glad the temps dropped as much as it has, left it on idle 40 minutes while i went for food came back its at 38c. will possibly be even lower after the warm wether has gone.

might not bother with as5.

ill keep it untill i clean it up or somthing. bound to need fresh cpu paste at sometime. but untill then like u say its not worth doing.

although if i take the side of the pc off it drops another 3-4 c

so next mod is to mesh it. would i still need a side fan on if it was mesh'd and not an acrylic sheet?

im not really wanting to replace the pc with a faster 1 as all i do is msn n net and sometimes a bit of counter strike. might just bang in a ati x1950 and another gb of ram (ddr400 1gb at moment) and that may see me through another year or so. or go back to windows xp copy from vista legal lol. and have a faster pc for a few more years lol
 
well as5 came this morning and i thought to hell with it would add it to my pc.

installation was a 2 minutes job, and im not sure if its made a difference temp wise yet as i've read it needs time to work???????? 200hours??????

well any how running stress prime for 10 minutes so far and the max cpu has been 45C which keeps dropping back down to 44 so im guessing thats the highest it will go, im going to leave it on anotehr 15 minutes then turn off as im off out. but i hope it drops it further and for abotu £5 deliverd off ebay its not bad.
 
Good stuff. 45C load is great, nice and cool!

Some people say that a side fan messes up case airflow, so it's really down to you. Try it with and without and keep an eye on temps: go for whatever gives you the lowest :)

But 38C idle to 45C load is more than adequate :cool:
 
still thinkong of removing the acrylic window and meshing it as the temps drop a few more C when the window isnt on.........

just now to find some nice mesh preferably in blue.

black may look a nice contrast but if i get silver needs to be painted lol
 
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