Can you explain this?
I've got a maze 3, asus a7v-333, 1/2" ID setup on a viaqua pump with a noname heater core externally mounted with 3 120mms.
I booted my computer and forgot to turn on the pump and the radiator fans. I didnt check my temps and went about computing.
My case fans were on but no other cooling. An hour and a half later I went to shut down and checked my temps. They were 69*C This was after an hour and a half of light computing on an athlon xp, (which to my knowledge Doesn't throttle at high temps.) Now I have decent case cooling but still 69*C after an hour and a half with no active cooling on the chip itself? MAYBE due to heat rising a very slow circulation was created naturally (the radiator was warm it never gets warm when fans are on). Oh and I am absolutely sure the pump was off as the surge pro it is wired to was off. All I can say is thank goodness I was at stock when this happened.
Can anyone with better knowledge of the subject confirm or deny my suspicions as to the cpu performing its own pumping by heating the water? Or perhaps explain this some other way?
Temps are ondie by the way.
I've got a maze 3, asus a7v-333, 1/2" ID setup on a viaqua pump with a noname heater core externally mounted with 3 120mms.
I booted my computer and forgot to turn on the pump and the radiator fans. I didnt check my temps and went about computing.
My case fans were on but no other cooling. An hour and a half later I went to shut down and checked my temps. They were 69*C This was after an hour and a half of light computing on an athlon xp, (which to my knowledge Doesn't throttle at high temps.) Now I have decent case cooling but still 69*C after an hour and a half with no active cooling on the chip itself? MAYBE due to heat rising a very slow circulation was created naturally (the radiator was warm it never gets warm when fans are on). Oh and I am absolutely sure the pump was off as the surge pro it is wired to was off. All I can say is thank goodness I was at stock when this happened.
Can anyone with better knowledge of the subject confirm or deny my suspicions as to the cpu performing its own pumping by heating the water? Or perhaps explain this some other way?
Temps are ondie by the way.