Temp usin AX7 and Delta Fan

[EeeK]

What yours, needed for reference? Mine is on AMD XP 1600+, 55-70 degree.

[Kendan]

Well that seems a little high. But since you gave no info as to motherboard, ambient temp, Whether it is at load or idle, where you are reading your temps, or anything else that can affect temps it is hard to say. Is 55 your low temp at idle and the 70 your load temp? Once you give more info it might help us narrow down whether there is a problem or not. Good luck:D

[maxima88]

55-70c is high, no matter what your kind of hardware you have.

List your specs and we'll see if we can help you lower your temps.

[EeeK]

Usin Epox 8K3A+.

PS: Will a 1 yr+ old thermal grease get harden? coz I wanna use.

[obliv]

get some artic silver 3, and make surethe heatsink is making good contact, i do think that your board reads the on die diode, which makes temps a little bit more plausible, but still relatively bad.

[DAGO]

Those temps seem very high to me, especially if you are using an AX-7...
With that Heatsink and any fan at all, you should be getting much cooler temps than that...
As to whether thermal grease will harden over a year, it depends...If you opened it a year ago and used some of it, then the chances are good it will be useless by now...If still sealed up, then it may be OK...but the general opinion around here is to get rid of that crappy paste and use some Arctic Silver 3 to keep your CPU nice n cool...;)

My temps with a 1.4 Tbird, AX-7 with AS3 and a fairly quiet fan are around 44C while Folding...Yours should be cooler than that if you are using a Delta...;)

[Deadphishy]

my temps are about 32 idle and 40 load, with the my sig. are you overclocked any, whats your vcore. i would first try remounting the heast sink because those temps are way to high.

[chuckerants]

I have an Epox 8K3A XP1600 @ 1.8 Ghz. AX-7 with a Delta and load temp is around 40~50.

[ronin1967]

I also have that heat sink and a Mechatronics fan and have run two different processors with it:

Athlon Thunderbird 1.333 35-40C
Athlon XP 1600+ 34-40C

Your temps seem high, use Arctic Silver 3, and even at up'd voltages you shouldn't be above 45C, unless of course you live in a desert...

[Kendan]

That board does read the internal diode and your temps are going to be about ten degrees higher than boards that do not read it. What is your idle temp and what is your at load temp? What program are you using to get your at load temp? What is the ambient temp in your room? Try AS3 it will help. You should also make sure the heatsink is on correctly.
Good luck!

[EeeK]

Ok, I've added some cheapo thermal grease and the temp have drop to 42 degree after loadin winxp. I then tried to o/c my xp1600+ (not unlock) by runnin @ xp2100+ (10.5 * 166 @ 1.85v). It loaded fine at 44+ degree, run IE6 fine but will suddenly restart. Cannot pass Prime95 benchmark and torture test.

Any suggestions? Should I increase the vcore?

Also my 80 x 80 x 38 (mm) delta fan (FFB0812EHE) rpm sensor does not work. I've send an email to Delta and they reply with something I dun understand. Anyone can help me?



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[mr1337pants]

Originally posted by EeeK
Any suggestions? Should I increase the vcore?

Also my 80 x 80 x 38 (mm) delta fan (FFB0812EHE) rpm sensor does not work. I've send an email to Delta and they reply with something I dun understand. Anyone can help me?

Yup, give 'er more juice. My 1800+ takes 1.95 (actual) volts to be Prime95 24hr. solid at 1750. The required voltage varies from chip to chip so only take it up one voltage step at a time and run Prime95 for as long as you can (24 hours recommended) to see if it's solid.

Also remember that the 8K3A reads from the internal diode to report temps and this will always be higher than those using TBirds on this board or boards which report temps based on the in-socket thermistor.

Agreed that the e-mail from Delta is cryptic, perhaps garbled by erroneous English. It sounds like the sensor wire doesn't work at a certain voltage so it needs a resistor to work but that's too much work, I'd just get a Sunon/Vantec Tornado in that case. Hopefully someone had this issue and fixed it easily though (and will find this thread!).

[HeXenViRii]

i get 55-60c with ax-7 + delta68 + as2 on my tbird 1.4

[HeXenViRii]

Originally posted by HeXenViRii
i get 55-60c with ax-7 + delta68 + as2 on my tbird 1.4

Watercooling here we come !!

[EeeK]

I wank up to 2 volts but still cannot complete Prime95 benchmark and torture. Anymore advise?

[mr1337pants]

Originally posted by EeeK
I wank up to 2 volts but still cannot complete Prime95 benchmark and torture. Anymore advise?
Next thing to try is juicing up the memory and/or using more relaxed timings. If that doesn't help, try getting an SLK-800 cause it was the only thing that got my chip above 1600 :eek:

[EeeK]

There's a memory volt adjustable in my Epox 8k3a+, will increase it make my cpu more stable?

[mr1337pants]

If it's the root of the P95 errors, increasing the voltage could help, yes. I would not go over 2.8v in most cases, and a maximum of 2.9v if it works stable at your desired speed. Any higher could significantly shorten the life of the memory.

[mrm1957]

My temps are Case 30C and CPU 35C. Sounds like your air flow isn't to good. I have ECS K7SEM with an Athlon Tbird 1.4. Have
a duct going to 68CFM Delta. Along with a 92mm fan for intake and 2 30CFM exhaust plus PS fan.