- Joined
- Jun 24, 2003
- Location
- Twin Cities
Hi All. I just registered and am relatively new to overclocking (although I have a lot of computer experience - just mostly at "retail" levels). In any case, I'm experiencing somewhat poor performance from my 8RDA+ and Thermalright SLK-800 and was hoping that you folks would be able to help. My setup is the following:
- Chieftec "Dragon" case w/ 4 case fans - two intake near the lower front and two exhaust in the back.
- AMD 2700+ Thouroughbred-B
- Epox 8RDA+ w/ Vantec Iceburq active cooling on Northbridge and passive heatsink on Southbridge
- Thermalright SLK-800(a) with generic 80x80x20 30 cfm case fan (I think that's what the fan is from what I can tell).
Currently, I'm running at 11.5x200 (2300 MHz). I'm reading my temperatures from MBM5 and my temperatures have been as follows:
CPU: 45 idle / 51 load
Case: 30 idle and load
I was running at 12x200 for a while, but under load, the CPU temperature started climbing to 56-57 and I got nervous so backed down my settings a bit even though Prime95 hadn't spit out any errors.
I just got the HSF today and have tried remounting it already with little change in its effectiveness. I was careful to clean the heatsink and CPU core with acetone and rubbing alcohol before placing a thin layer of thermal grease. I am using the generic thermal grease that came with the Thermalright SLK-800(a) although I may get some AC3 tomorrow if people think it will really help?
With the retail AMD HSF, I was getting temperatures of around 53 under load at 11x200. Was I expecting too much from my new HSF? At 11.5x200, I am running 2 degrees cooler than previously, but I'd still like to be able to push my system harder as it seems that the CPU will take it. I've seen other folks on here with the same HSF and that are getting temperatures of high 30s idle and low 40s under load and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong?
Any suggestions on things I might want to try? I'll buy some AC3 if people really think that will help, but I'm a little skeptical that it will give me the drop in temperature that I'm looking for. Should I try remounting everything again? My case temperature isn't that hot at 30 degrees and with 4 case fans, that would seem to be plenty of airflow? Can anyone think of anything else? I'm wondering why my CPU temperatures are 7-8 degrees higher than those other people that are posting here?
Thanks for your help!
- Chieftec "Dragon" case w/ 4 case fans - two intake near the lower front and two exhaust in the back.
- AMD 2700+ Thouroughbred-B
- Epox 8RDA+ w/ Vantec Iceburq active cooling on Northbridge and passive heatsink on Southbridge
- Thermalright SLK-800(a) with generic 80x80x20 30 cfm case fan (I think that's what the fan is from what I can tell).
Currently, I'm running at 11.5x200 (2300 MHz). I'm reading my temperatures from MBM5 and my temperatures have been as follows:
CPU: 45 idle / 51 load
Case: 30 idle and load
I was running at 12x200 for a while, but under load, the CPU temperature started climbing to 56-57 and I got nervous so backed down my settings a bit even though Prime95 hadn't spit out any errors.
I just got the HSF today and have tried remounting it already with little change in its effectiveness. I was careful to clean the heatsink and CPU core with acetone and rubbing alcohol before placing a thin layer of thermal grease. I am using the generic thermal grease that came with the Thermalright SLK-800(a) although I may get some AC3 tomorrow if people think it will really help?
With the retail AMD HSF, I was getting temperatures of around 53 under load at 11x200. Was I expecting too much from my new HSF? At 11.5x200, I am running 2 degrees cooler than previously, but I'd still like to be able to push my system harder as it seems that the CPU will take it. I've seen other folks on here with the same HSF and that are getting temperatures of high 30s idle and low 40s under load and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong?
Any suggestions on things I might want to try? I'll buy some AC3 if people really think that will help, but I'm a little skeptical that it will give me the drop in temperature that I'm looking for. Should I try remounting everything again? My case temperature isn't that hot at 30 degrees and with 4 case fans, that would seem to be plenty of airflow? Can anyone think of anything else? I'm wondering why my CPU temperatures are 7-8 degrees higher than those other people that are posting here?
Thanks for your help!