2 amds running hot

[1200]

hey,
i just built 2 computers for 2 different friends
one a t-bird 1.4 gig and the other a 1.2
both are using the a7v266 motherboard and a fop38 fan

everything seems to be ok with them, but both cpu's are running at about 55 just idling in bios
i know this is not good because my 1.2 t-bird idles at 40

i'm not sure what else i can do without having to get them to fork out more money for a different fan.

the voltage i think is set at 1.79. is this right?

thanx in advance

[thefly]

Hmm that's an asus board right?

are you using artic silver2?

asus apparently tend to post elevated temps... somewhere in the range of +10c.

get motherboard monitor and see what it reports.

also lots of case fans will help.

[!-=sky=-!]

the main reason for the hot temps is because fop38 isnt enough cooling for a 1.4tbird..........it's not really even enough for a 1ghz tbird

get yourself a new cooler something like glaciator or swiftech or cak38 from global win

[Rob Cork]

I don't think just changing your mobo monitoring program will give you more accurate temps. I find that different temp monitoring programs on the same board give exactly the same temp reading - I think they just display whatever temp is passed to them by the board. To get more accurate temps you'd need to get a temp probe with some display like the senfu digital thermometers, and place that between the cpu ceramic and hsf base, touching the core. That's what I've done, and I get max temps of 37.7C from that, compared to 44-45C in MBM5. That's on my Abit KG7-Lite - a pretty hefty 6 or 7C difference. I never used the digital thermometer with my Asus A7V, but I always suspected the mobo porbe on that to be way off. It used to give load temps with my watercooling of about 50C at 1000MHz, 2.32V - compared to ~55C with my cheapo Taisol Al hsf. I'd bet the temps with watercooling were as much as 10C lower on that, probably around 40C or even less.

Bottom line, don't ever trust an onboard temp probe. Even for comparative results they're pretty useless - I'll never use one again after having used these nifty digital thermometers :D