Watercooling, all arrived and ready to be installed!!

alright so Im obviously lying through my teeth, or all 4 of the thermal probes are.

seeing as its an impossible achievement.
 
look, please understand nobody is saying your lying, you have naff temp sensors, wow, i think almost every mobo has too.

if your room temp is 25 your cpu isnt going to be that temp, its going to be more, like it or not.

if your gonna argue with the fact temp sensors cant read for **** take it to XS or procooling. :)
 
No, this isn't actually fair to say it's not true because I've had the same thing as him. I had ambient temp of 17 degrees and a cpu temp of the same... although it's likely that the mobo was low 17 and the cpu was high 17. Seriously it's not impossible to have the cpu the same degree as the ambient, just impossible for it to be exactly the same temp. I think you just have a really nice setup which happens to cool to near ambient.
 
Its far from impossible but it is HIGLY unlikely they are the same temperature. ALL, and I mean ALL temp sensors give an electronical reading which is sent to a chip which then tells you its reading this value, say 22, but it has to be programmed to tell you which means it has to set up incredibly well to assume it reads 100% accurately the temp of whatever it is taking the temp of.

Since your motherboard will be a different kettle of fish to your probes and are unlikely to ever give the same temp in the exact same environment, its safe to assume the CPU is being read incorrectly, but it is possible to get very low temps if you have a superb water cooling kit, it just means you have the CPU on a separate loop and on a PA120.3 Rad all to itself, thats the only way you are going to get damn near spot on room temp, and thats with a CPU with an extremely low TDP too.
 
gr1mey said:
why cant it be? both the Mobo sensor, and the sensor from the unit read the same, bar a degree.

as we speak room temperature is 25' and the CPU sensor reads 25'

its not impossible, as its fact and Im looking right at it now.

wish I had my digi cam.
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Where is your calibration data for the sensors then? Manufacturers specs? What test equipment did you use?

Not got any of those? Then how can you be sure they're reading an accurate temperature? Quibbling over whether two temperature sensors are accurate without any way to measure them seems a little futile to me ;) I can quite believe the ambient and cpu sensors are showing you similar readings... where are those sensors located for a start?
 
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Before we all get down on this guy, remember that the temperatures being quoted are idle temps mostly. The A64 chips at idle will run very close to ambient temps because they're not drawing any power and therefore producing next to no heat.

gr1mey,

What about load temps after an hour of CPUBurn or Prime95? That's going to be far more of an indication of your cooling efforts than an idle temp.
 
if you look at the top of this page of the thread those are the temperatures after a long gaming session.

29' on the CPU at 25' room temp.

whats so wrong here?

I get the same temperature as ambient on my watercooling after a boot, and after a session of hard CPU usage its 3-4 degress hotter than ambient.

why is everyone on my back its lame, my system is super fast, only a single core 3200 and an x1800xt, with a pa120.2 rad with big bore tubing.

both additional sensors from a thermal controller and mobo sensors report the same temps bar a degree or two.

I will borrow a temperature probe at the weekend and clear this up.

All I wanted was some nice comments on a job well done, and all Ive had is people accusing me of ************.
 
well, if you're happy, what difference does it make. IF its fast and cool enough for you well done.

also, load temps need to be measured when they ae under load. not after a gaming session because almost instantly the temps will go back to ambient.

You need to find temps in game

Tom
 
alright in that case when I leave gaming tonight I will run prime95 for an hour or so then take some screenies and post them.

Im desperately trying to get my hands on a digi cam so i can post photos of the setup and temps from the eudemon unit.

I dont appreciate this treatment one bit atm.
 
Bah, dont worry about it.
Just the sensors may be a little off.

Loaded temps is where it matters. You can have idle temps of a few degrees above ambient with a stock HSF but under load its a different story all together.

Tom
 
I believe you if it is any consolation. To be honest it doesn't matter if they are the correct temps or not - your machine works!! and it is good so it is ok :)

am going to fit some watercooling this weekend - hope it goes as well as yours!!!

daven
 
ok so I ran prime for an hour and the temps were:

29'c after 60mins of prime95 (so load, right?) that was the reading on the mobo sensor (read by everest), the thermal sensor glued to the side of the IHS read 29'also - room temp was 24'c.

so?
 
Seriously, no-one is accusing you of lying, your reporting the temps that a probe is telling you, we are just informing you they are almost always wrong, but the delta from the real temp is not going to be huge anyway.

It seems to cooling very well, and I hope for good temps when I set up my water cooling soon.

Now hurry up with the pics. :D
 
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