I think my pc's running hot

[Init-0]

I been running my Ghz Pc for months now (home built) and its all been fine.
But when i check the tempture sensors in my bios and "Mother Board Monitor 5" it shows some high temptures on the proccessor.

73 C in MBM5
and around 90C in my bios

Is this crap or is it true.

Its never crashed due to coolling problems, although it has no thermal paste on it....

Its a Thermal Take Super Orb im using too.

Any Insights?

[Phil]

what cpu is it?
Is the superorb warm to touch? if not then it could be badly contacting the core.
I know these sensors are sometimes a little inaccurrate but not by that much.
when you say no thermal paste do you mean your using a thermal pad that came with the heatsink or bare metal on core contact?

[Init-0]

Well It has no pad or paste...
Its an amd Athlon too
think i should add some?

[Phil]

Originally posted by Init-0
Well It has no pad or paste...
Its an amd Athlon too
think i should add some?

Definately, even just some white goop from radioshack or something.

[TranceBear]

oh my, did you read the instructions on your chip/motherboard? I would not be suprised if he has since burned the chip. Please read the beginners guide on overclocking and cooling if you haven't.

[jbell]

HOLY HELL BATMAN!!!!

Get some ASII on that baby and um..... dump the orb - I read this forum religiously and that is the ##1 complaint - orb = do not use!

bang for buck get a thermaltake volcano 6cu or 6cu+ they are about 20-25 bucks and basically a delta 38 clone fan on them.


ASII I have seen at 8 bucks a tube.

[Init-0]

Well on all the older pc's ive set up its never really been needed.
(last one i did was a 500 k6-2)
Ill check it out soon and probably apply some of that stuff.

[VashTheStampede]

I don't trust Thermaltake at all, and not just because of the orbs. There are three companies involved here:

Thermaltake

Huey Shyang

Titan

From what I read, the article was in Russian, Huey Shyang makes the actual orbs, Titan makes the fans, it is all assembled at Huey Shyang Industries. Thermaltake takes it, slaps their name on it and ships. This was found out when a few Huey Shyang orbs leaked out, instead of Thermaltake on the clip, it said Huey Shyang.

What's even more disturbing is, I was looking through some ancient HSFs I had lying around, like the ones I used on my 486 and such. One of them was a Titan, and about two or three fan blades were shorter than the rest on the HSF. Might explain why sometimes the fan comes off on those orbs or takes a flying leap at one side of the orb, due to the poor quality fans Titan deals.

Now you know why I will most likely never buy Thermaltake again.

Here is the article I refered to:

http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/chromeorb-copycat.shtml

~RT~

[Init-0]

I put on some paste and the tempture has dropped to 55C
Thx Guys :)

Youd think after building 4 pc's id have some Idea about cooling :P
(well there all old builds and required minimal cooling :)

Oh well
:)

[Phil]

Originally posted by Init-0
I put on some paste and the tempture has dropped to 55C
Thx Guys :)

Youd think after building 4 pc's id have some Idea about cooling :P
(well there all old builds and required minimal cooling :)

Oh well
:)

You've been lucky this time, in future always use a thermal compound.

55oC is still a tad hot for a 1ghz tbird but then you are using the superorb, did you note down it's serial code by any chance?
it's a string of letters on the top of the core which should look something like AHXA or AXIA or AHYJA