SD31P Temperatures

[SnAzBaZ]

Hi,

I have a new Shuttle SD31P with the following configuration:

3Ghz Pentium D Processor
2Gb Corsair DDR2 Memory
1x 74Gb Western Digital Raptor
1x 300Gb Seagate
1x Pioneer DVR-110D
1x XFX GeForce 7800GT GPU

Now what I can't understand is why the thing is running so hot, at the moment it is idleing at 50 C it goes up to around 55 C on load.

I can get it to run much cooler if I turn the fan speeds up to Medium. At the moment I have the system fan speeds set to Medium and the CPU fan to Smart Fan. Though I never ever hear the CPU fan speeds increasing, even when the CPU temperature increases.

I have updated to the latest BIOS, but this made no difference. I have Speed Fan installed as well, and that is also reading very high temps, the Remote Temp is 61C apparently.

Im concerned that this is going to damage my system in the long run, but I dont understand why Smart Fan doesnt do what its supposed to do. I don't want to have the system running on Medium fan speed as its louder than my old tower system.

Any advice ?

Thanks

Andrew

 

[Orifice]

Should install Shuttles XPC tools rather than speedfan. The fans in my SD31 definately work as they should, i have them in silent mode, and they do increase speed when the temperature starts rising.

55c is certainly not very high for a Pentium D under load, mine goes higher, but as long as it doesnt throttle i dont really care what the temperature is.

 

[SnAzBaZ]

Interesting, I have used XPC Tools on my SN25P before, but again, changing the fan speed in the Tools, doesnt seem to change the fan speed in the shuttle.

Does it work with the SD31P model ?

I will download it now and give it a go.

Thanks

Andrew

 

[Orifice]

Yup, its working fine on mine, i'm using the XP64 version, but i doubt thats any different to the standard one. Mainly use it to control the speed of the drive fans, as they tend to make the most noise.