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- May 22, 2001
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- Deerfield, IL
I just replaced my FalconRock II w/2000rpm fan with a sk-7 with 40cfm panaflo on an a7n8x dlx. My temps are absolutely horrible. I used arctic silver II on the falconrock and ceramique on the sk-7. Sitting at stock speeds on my 2500+ with the sk-7 I'm at:
46C idle/55C load/22C ambient
these are about the same temps for either heatsink!!! I've reapplied and reseated the heatsink 3 times with the same results...WTF??? could my motherboard be reading the temps wrong? The machine seems to be stable up to 2.4 GHZ, but I start seeing temps of 65C at load and I dont really want to buy a new one anytime soon
everytime I take the heatsink off there is a nice rectangular impression of where the core was sitting, and almost all the grease has been squeezed out, leaving just a see through layer on the heatsink and chip. I'm not inexperienced with installing heatsinks, but i've never used these massive things AMD chips seem to need.
any ideas what is going on?
edit: ok, this is rediculous, I just put the side of my case back on and its spiking up to 57C just doing email and an surfing the forum
46C idle/55C load/22C ambient
these are about the same temps for either heatsink!!! I've reapplied and reseated the heatsink 3 times with the same results...WTF??? could my motherboard be reading the temps wrong? The machine seems to be stable up to 2.4 GHZ, but I start seeing temps of 65C at load and I dont really want to buy a new one anytime soon
everytime I take the heatsink off there is a nice rectangular impression of where the core was sitting, and almost all the grease has been squeezed out, leaving just a see through layer on the heatsink and chip. I'm not inexperienced with installing heatsinks, but i've never used these massive things AMD chips seem to need.
any ideas what is going on?
edit: ok, this is rediculous, I just put the side of my case back on and its spiking up to 57C just doing email and an surfing the forum
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