Runnig temp for Amd 4000+

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Runni gtemp for Amd 4000+

Received me AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-175-AM) last week.

Having looked at temp monitoring for it - i find it idles at 40 degrees and goes to around 55 degrees when under load - isnt this a little high? i need some new thermal paste anyway which ill buy tommorow - do i need to try and get the old stuff off before i put the new paste on? Im running stock heatsink and fan atm

thanks

Any help much appreciated
 
do i need to try and get the old stuff off before i put the new paste on?
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this is a must, before redoing the cpu :)
get some TIM Clean & Arctic Silver 5 2 reseat it :)
 
55c is a bit warm for that chip at full load but its nothing to worrey about on a stock cooler. Ideally you need to get an aftermarket cooler like a Freezer64 pro and that also comes with decent paste pre-applied to the heatsink.

Also Geforce4 is an ooold graphics card gpu, your motherboard is nForce4 :p (check your sig)
 
get that baby cooled properly and up above 3ghz!! Mine sits at 3122 all day and only hits 45C max load. Thats with an artic cooler and some AS5.. Only 1 80mm exhaust fan too!
 
fastwunz said:
Received me AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-175-AM) last week.

Having looked at temp monitoring for it - i find it idles at 40 degrees and goes to around 55 degrees when under load - isnt this a little high? i need some new thermal paste anyway which ill buy tommorow - do i need to try and get the old stuff off before i put the new paste on? Im running stock heatsink and fan atm

thanks

Any help much appreciated
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55c max load is fine, if that load has been created using snm. also im assusing that your using the stock cooler so its fine. if you want cool and silent running then use a freezer 64 and drop the vcore of the cpu by 1 notch (im sure your cpu will be able to run at stock clock at below stock volts.)
 
Am I alone in having doubts about the claims made about the performance of CPU coolers? I've found that the temperatures reported using identical components on different motherboards can vary by as much as 15c. I'm fairly convinced that the temperature monitoring hardware and software is fairly inaccurate. I have an Epox EP 9NPA+Ultra and an Athlon 64 4000+ in a Coolermaster Stacker 830 case with three 120mm fans, my cpu is cooled by the Arctic Freeser 64 Pro. My CPU temperature is reported to be at 43c idle and has never exceeded 51c under sustained load. I use Arctic Silver Ceramique thermal paste. My system is rock solid.

My previous motherboard was an Abit IC7-G Max which reported CPU temps 13c higher than those reported by boards from other manufacturers such as Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, etc. The apparently high CPU idle temps on both my Abit and the Epox boards were reported by many other users. There was a long technical discussion on the different temps on different but similarly specced boards on one of the better review sites. Actual temperatures were measured under controlled circumstances using a thermal probe and these were compared with the temps reported by the motherboard monitoring. The results of these tests revealed wide discrepancies between reported and measured temps. The general conclusion of the thread was that temperatures reported motherboards using monitoring software are, at best, only broad indications of the actual temperature.

Perhaps those of us who buy these snake oil air cooling solutions are chasing an illusion at considerable costs to ourselves and the planet? Or perhaps there is a higher proportion of obsessive neurotics amongst we "enthusiasts" than amongst the computer owning public at large.
 
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I also have high idle temps with my 4000+ SD. I'm using an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 and my comp idles at about 40-43 degrees C at stock. This is rather high considering my 3000+ idled around 30 degrees with a Thermaltake Polo 735 cooler. My second rig with a 3200+ idles even lower at 26-29 degrees.

Maybe the batch of 4000+ SD's from OCUk just run hot?? :confused: .
 
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Where are you getting that reading from, have you tried CoreTemp?
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If you read the thread more closely you will discover that all the posts refer to the temperatures as reported by motherboard monitoring software. In my case I've used Sandra Pro, Speedfan and MotherBoardMonitor. I am currently using Everest Ultimate Edition. However, regardless of the monitoring software used, my CPU temperature is reported at similar readings.

Whether the reported temperature is the core temperature or not I simply don't know. I'm fairly certain that by far the majority of posters on these threads are referring to temperatures reported by monitoring software rather than by thermal probes.

I notice that you capitilise "CoreTemps." Is this yet another piece of monitoring software or were you referring to the core temperature of our CPUs?
 
I've found my answer and CoreTemps, thanks for the reference. CoreTemps reports my CPU temperature to be 41c. Everest reports it at 43c. Frankly, I still think that these are ball park figures and remain unconvinced about the need for or the claims of after market heatsink enthusiasts. However, silence is golden which makes the Arctic Freezer 64 Pro worth the investment.
 
The reason I mentioned the app called Coretemp is because I see a 9-10c difference between this and other monitoring applications on my A8N-E. A quick google doesn't hurt for something you are not farmiliar with.

Core temp is designed to take temperatures from the CPU core so it may be more accurate than motherboard monitoring applications. Even if thats untrue, its another monitoring tool to try.

Leporello: I did read the thread properly thanks. This is an open discussion forum, I own the same chip so I gave my input to this thread. Have you even considered that just because your readings are all the same, it may be different between applications on another motherboard?
 
I get a 10c difference between my BIOS reading and CoreTemp... which is more likely to be correct?

I am assuming its core temp... everests reading just fluctuates lake crazy so its no use.

Speed fan just seams to follow the BIOS reading. Now I'm confused.
 
I would go with the readings Coretemp gives you. The reading in your bios may well be the socket temperature rather than the CPU diode itself.

The temperature of the core is what matters.
 
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