ATHLON Xp 1600 at 54 C!!

[DeathScyth_Hell]

I just got a Athlon Xp 1600...the bios of my mobo says its 54 C...is this ok or is this high...i think its high...i have a thermalright cb-6L...the guy I bought the athlon xp from said it was good enough....i'm using a 21 cfm fan...from thermaltake...should i get a bigger fan??...

Thx for the help..

[TranceBear]

YES!!, that is barely blowing enough air for a Duron. Stock H/S has more cfm than that.

[RedDeathDrinker]

XP1600 runs cooler than T-Birds, but you might think about an Alpha PAL 8045 or a Glaciator 2 to cool the beast.

something around 30-34cfm should do the trick fan-wise, no need for you to go Delta-shaped just yet.....;)

[nick_woods]

I also have an XP1600 but mine came with a Coolermaster HCC02 heatsink and 37CFM Delta fan.

With this combo it ran at 34C but it was far too noisy for me, so i bought an 60mm-80mm adapter from http://www.theoverclockingstore.co.uk and put a 29CFM Evercool low-noise fan on it.

It now runs at 39C under load (MPEG2 encoding and games playing) and is a lot quieter as well.

Regards

Nick

[RedDeathDrinker]

Originally posted by nick_woods
I also have an XP1600 but mine came with a Coolermaster HCC02 heatsink and 37CFM Delta fan.

With this combo it ran at 34C but it was far too noisy for me, so i bought an 60mm-80mm adapter from http://www.theoverclockingstore.co.uk and put a 29CFM Evercool low-noise fan on it.

It now runs at 39C under load (MPEG2 encoding and games playing) and is a lot quieter as well.

Regards

Nick

Just to hijack the thread for a wee minute......

Nick - have you used theoverclockingstore much before? What sort of service have you had out of them?

[nick_woods]

Alasdair - it was my first purchase from them and the service was excellent. I ordered on Friday morning, it was despatched on Friday afternoon and on my desk on Monday (I wasnt at work on Saturday so it may even have arrived by then).

They have a forum page as well and the 'service' topic seems to have mostly good comments and they do respond to the bad ones.

Regards

Nick

[deathstar13]

i also have a simular rig. my temps as posted by bios is 48C @idle
52C@load this is at 11x141 or 1.55ghz
coolermaster sink also.
ive had no known problems as of yet.but im gonna switch sinks and fans soon these temps are a little scary to me also.
i do run alot of case fans pulling and pushing case@69F

[sgamd]

MCX462... i highly recommend it. look at my stats.

[Captain 3D]

You might wanto read this thread on amdmb.com that I started after similar temps with my MP1800's

"Why the need for sub 50C CPU temps?? (http://www.amdmb.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=600649)

There was quite a lot of discussion and recommendations with the summary being that the system will probably be stable up to 65C...Phil 3D