What am I doing wrong with air cooling..

[dborden]

Ok... AMD 1.4 with a glaciator and using Arctic Silver II. Lian LI PC-12 with two 82mm fans in the front pulling air in and 1 82mm fan in the back pulling air out. A PCI slot fan sucks air out the back of the case as well. Power supply enermax 430watt has its own fan. Why the heck is my CPU temp so high. In the bios of my abit KG7 RAID it is reporting CPU temp as 45C and motherboard temp 44C. I've seen is vary from 40C to 47C on both depending if the processor is under stress or not. With these temps I can't even think about overclocking. This is with 1400 133 FSB and PC 2400 corsaid DDRram.

What am i doing wrong? How can I drop my processor temp into the 30s like you guys.

[chawken]

Originally posted by dborden
Ok... AMD 1.4 with a glaciator and using Arctic Silver II. Lian LI PC-12 with two 82mm fans in the front pulling air in and 1 82mm fan in the back pulling air out. A PCI slot fan sucks air out the back of the case as well. Power supply enermax 430watt has its own fan. Why the heck is my CPU temp so high. In the bios of my abit KG7 RAID it is reporting CPU temp as 45C and motherboard temp 44C. I've seen is vary from 40C to 47C on both depending if the processor is under stress or not. With these temps I can't even think about overclocking. This is with 1400 133 FSB and PC 2400 corsaid DDRram.

What am i doing wrong? How can I drop my processor temp into the 30s like you guys.

It looks like you have a good setup. Have you checked to make sure that your HS is completely flush and level on the CPU. IF it is raised, at any point, off of the processor - you will get high temps. On the ASII, how much did you apply? It only takes a very thin layer on the core only.

[dborden]

HS/F is flush to the processor from what i can tell....

ASII i used a credit card to apply an extremely thin layer to the actualy chip itself. it was very smoth and flat with the application. And I first rubbed it in the HS and also the chip before I made the regular application to make sure and get all those microscopic pits and valley....

[sockmonkey]

glaciators make for crazy temps. I think somebody said a while back that the glaciator makes mobos report higher temps for whatever reason. I know I heard that.

[dborden]

The only reason I bought that thing is cause i read that it was really good. ::sigh::

[cool_hand_joe13]

:eek: Try two fans blowing in on the side of your case.Also try one fan blowing out at the top of your case. My case has 13 fans and one small dc blower,works for me.:cool:

[Placid]

What is the room temp. where the pc is?