[ale] CPU temp [was: Who's Your Mother...]

[Christopher Russell]

Dow,
Van,

My Athlon XP1800, (not clocked) has CPU Temp of 54C/129F, with AMD
retail box fan running 4700-5300 RPM. - It is quiet, on GigaByte-7VRXP
mobo. - and it is stable!

Aren't those Volcano heatsink/fans noisy?

Chris

> Dow Hurst wrote:
>I read about the capacitors too.  Seems to be mainly in really lowend 
>cheapo mobo's from what the article stated.  Thanks for the info on the
>temps.  I have the XP1800 and it runs about 60C all the time.  My 
>airflow isn't the best but definitely it is a hot chip!
>Dow

>Van L. Loggins wrote:

>> I just recently built myself a new computer at home. I used an Epox 
>> 8RDA+ Nforce2 based MB in it.
>>
>> this is my first Motherboard from Epox but I am very impressed with 
>> it, with the AMD Athlon XP 2400 t'bred Revision B core cpu I have 
>> paired with this MB along with the Volcano 9 Heatsink and fan I am 
>> getting very cool cpu temps, even when I overclock the chip by 
>> dropping the multiplier and raising the frontside bus to 166 MHz from
>> the stock 133 MHz. cpu temps on this unit just barely break 30
Celsius >> unless I overclock it.


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