Two questions.

[WyrmMaster]

1. This is to anyone with a compunurse or digital doc. how do you have your CPU probe set up. I have mine touching the edge of the core, and it reads temps high from what radiate would predict. According to my temps My glaciator II is only working at a C/W of .30.

2. Is there any way of determining the actual heat produced by a CPU, cause i think mine is running hotter than it should.

[mEKbOY]

I do the same. I stick the tip of it touching the side of my core..seems to be very acurate. I saw one extreme at procooling that took a dremel to his socket and allowed him to have the temp probe built in...

[WyrmMaster]

Yah, i THINK that my temp probe is pretty accurate, eccept that if that is the case it would mean that my CPU is putting out aproximently 60% more heat than it should at its speed and voltage.

[Silversinksam]

I have tried a few configurations with my DigDoc


For the CPU next to the cpu die is best bet but I have also installed a probe by drilling into the Heatsink as close to the area where the cpu die makes contact and so I didnt ruin the thermal aspects I plugged the hole with Arctic silver thermal adhesive.

I did the same with my Alpha pal 15u for my video card.

[donny_paycheck]

I trimmed the plastic of the probe away so just the tiny little thermocouple bead remains at the tip so it can get closer to the die. This made it more accurate, but with the cold plate pressing down it read a lot of the temp of the TEC cold side as well. With just air or water cooling it'd be more accurate. Maybe averaging the in-socket thermistor temp and the digidoc temp would yield a more accurate result?

[ButcherUK]

Maybe your HSF is only working at .3C/W? Seems obvious but that's probably the reason. As for why it could be related to the airflow pattern in your case (note having 1000 cfm of fans doesn't guarantee that your cpu will get cool air).

[WyrmMaster]

Yah, i trimed the plastic. The problem isnt that it is reading too cool, but that it seem to be too hot.

As for air circulation being the problem, no, the thermistor that reads ambiant for C/W calculation is right on the CPU fan guard. Also, the heatsink gets very hot, so its not lack of contact with the CPU.

[WyrmMaster]

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[WyrmMaster]

one last try, if nobody has any ideas il leave you alnoe sooo...

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