XP-120 Hotter than stock cooler

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 14:01

whats going on here? sorry about the double post but i need some help here. my stock cooler was 44 at load the the XP-120 is at 46

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 14:10

well the fan's im using are amber 120mm intake tt 120mm exhaust tt 80mm intake and tt case fan on the XP120

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 14:14

the heatsink and heat pipes are about 20'c it must just not be sittin right...
ill re sit and see what happens

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 14:46

took it out cleaned all the thermal compund off re applied and re sat. and its still the same. 33'c idle its now 49 load getting to 50 at points.

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 15:12

well im gonn aput my stock cooler back on? 50'c is just ****

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 15:38

i have put as5 oh the IHS and the heatsink. applied the bracket thing to my mobo. put one side of the heatsink on then cliped the other in place and i have a fan that puts out 78 CFM. my fried thinks it could be a seating problem but its level on the board!!!!

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 17:14

ah i dont know. the manual says put it on both. i tried that and i tried putting it just on the ihs and doing what you said moving it around a bit and still no joy

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 17:19

wasnt new. bought off the MM

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 17:30

hmm. well i might try later to see if i can get it to work right

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 17:54

well when i got it 2 of them had dents in them??? could this be the problem?

ps. people with a DFI Ultra D
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StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 17:56

if it is what do i do then? EDIT: concave

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 17:58

i am going to do that now. but i will use the thermalrite stuff to save my percious as5

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 18:27

right. im back lol. ive been took it off and cleaned it put a rice sized blob of thermalright crap on my cpu and squashed it with the heatsink and i look a pic.

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 20:11

correct. i did everything i was supposed to do and i get higher temps that my stock which i now have back in

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 20:47

it was all as tight as i it would go without breaking my board. the black plastic bracket didnt move and the heatsink was very tight on the clips.

StevenG · 2 May 2006 at 20:55

i bought it off the mm and the guy i bought it off says it was fine when he was using it to cool his A64 3500+ at 2.4

StevenG · 3 May 2006 at 14:00

just re seated the heatsink 1 final time. it was 2'c under at idle and its 4-8'c over on load. this is with a akasa amber at full rpm

so looks like it needs to be lapped. make some off the edges try and get the centre to actually hit the IHS...

the guy i bought it off has e-mailed Thermalright and they say that as i have overclocked the fan will not work to its full potential.

could someone please give me some temps with a opty 146 at 2.8 and an xp-120.

StevenG · 3 May 2006 at 14:13

im on 53 at the minute on load. converting a dvd. ambient temp is 24'c

EDIT:

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EDIT2: just finished converting and its down to 38'c which is what my stock cooler sits at :mad:

StevenG · 3 May 2006 at 15:48

when i touch the heatsink or heat pipes they are barely warm... 30'c max i would say. duff sensor?

StevenG · 3 May 2006 at 15:58

im sick of this bloody thing now