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Hey all, I've got an issue here......
Just a little while ago I purchased a new h/s fan (it's by a company called 'power cooling' the fan is similar to the golden orb) I
ploped it on my celeron 400 (@ 450, I wan't to go to 500 or 600 with it, hence the new h/s ; ) ). and, upon going into my BIOS to fiddle around a bit, I checked my harware monitor (I've got an ASUS P3B-F mobo) and it told me my temp was in around 35C, then, walking away for a few minutes I came back to notice it was registering at 50C!!
Correct me if I'm wrong here but, shouldn't that be a little lower?!
I mean, I was only in the sysBIOS, not like I was pushing the friggin' thing!
I want to push this to at least 500mhz, I've been running at 450 for nearly a year now...
Could it be that I didn't slap enough thermal goop on? (I was rather conservative about it before).
any help would be appreciated, thanks.
-MajD
It will run very hot in the bios mode. Try running windows with a temp monitoring utility like motherboard monitor.
cool, thanks.
I checked using Sandra 2001, and it stated my temp. was at 41.5C. That still seems to high, am I wrong?
My Vcore is still at the stock setting (2.02 I belive), if I put it lower would that deminish my temp.?
What about the thermal paste?
Thanks
ARGH!
my temp. is now at 51.5C after playing mp3s and a graphic intensive screensaver for 15minutes!
what the hell!
PPGA chips run pretty warm. I don't know anything about the orb copy you have, but even if it works as well as an original orb, that isn't saying much... They are not the optimum choice for serious overclocking.
What kind of case cooling do you have? You need an intake fan and an exhaust fan to provide thermal flow through the case, or no heatsink is going to perform well. I have always considered that staying within a degree or two of ambient room temperature within the case to be a reasonable goal.
This is not always easy, and requires some attention to detail. I recently changed cooling fans in a case to a higher speed model, and dropped cpu temps by 5 degrees.
okay, so here's what my setup is:
3 fans inside:
the gorb-clone h/s
a pci slot fan (venting my voodoo3 AGP)
and a makeshift chassis fan (which is basicly an old power supply fan I tore out of an old 386, then spliced to fit properly in a plug from the power supply (it's a 12v fan) )<it blows into the case, the PCI vents.
I also keep my case open (is that good or bad?)<the temp in the room is normaly around 25C durring winter and 20C in summer.
tech info on the h/s fan is found at http://www.powercoolerusa.com
thanks again.
Maybe the orb clone has the same problem that plagues the real ones- they aren't very flat and don't mate well with the cpu. Are you using a THIN layer of thermal grease? Too much and it acts as an insulator and traps the heat in the cpu. With good case ventilation and good heatsink connection to the die it should cool better than that. With the case open there is no flow from the fans, but if they are blowing on the cpu and the room is cool it should suffice for testing. Is the heatsink cool, and the cpu hot? If so it's not mating well.
What's thermal grease and where do ya get it from?
Does it come preapplied on the Golden orb fans?
Or what , do it yourself?
I tend to agree with Tim, if the cpu and heatsink are not absolutely flush you will have big problems eg I had my 566 cooled by a coolermaster and when I first put it in the temp was at 55deg when I looked at it again I noticed a gap betweenn the hs and die so I repositioned the fan holding it upto the light to see if there are any gaps, this dropped 15 degs off the temp, Im only using ordinary hs compound at the moment but it just shows you the importance of good contact.
good luck
the first time i installed the fan there was a gap!
but, i also ended up skratching the adapter card (i have to use a slot1 to PPGA adapter...that wouldn't make a differance on temp, would it?) and instead of experimenting i just bought a new one. Upon putting the fan on again, there seemed to be no gap, but i could be very well wrong.
To answer that theremal grease question, the stuff came in a little tube with the fan, it wasn't pre-applied (though my buddy who got one aswell had his pre-applied (?) )
Will I have to sand the h/s down to make a proper fit, or is it just a matter of re-positioning it?
I've also heard that the cpu's h/s connection can be not perfectly flat too, how would i properly check and fix that?
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