Eil Atan (Jul 24, 2001 08:58 p.m.):
hey all, I was travelling around so I haven't posted in quite a while, but I am back at home with my new glaciator and it doesn't seem to working up to its potential... the temperature of the chip is at 40C idle, which seems a bit high for this cooler, although it is 10C cooler than using my FOP 32-1... I felt the glaciator and a lot of air is being pushed out, and the HS itself feels relatively cool. my first thought was that it isn't making good contact with the processor, but I tried taking it off and reattaching it and that didn't help... any thoughts?
My own test with digital thermometers shows that the Glaciator has about 0.26C/W so if you expect it to perform miraculously good in the first place, then you will be dissapointed.
But your idle and full load temperature seems to be too close. There are only 3 possibilities for this
1) Your thermistor is not reading correctly
2) Your idle is not really idle
3) Your full load is not really full load.
Chances is item 1 or 2 could be the suspect. When idle, make sure there is really nothing running behind your background, no anti-virus, no icq, no screensaver..preferably when you do a cntrl-alt-del, the dialog window only shows systray and explorer. Many people has a string of things on their taskbar and take idle as "not doing anything on their part". So do be careful of that.
If you are sure that your comp is really idle, then your mobo thermistor is not reading correctly.