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

[Dow Hurst]

I had gone with the Zalman heat sink/fan combo but have the airflow 
badly configured in the case.  The case is just too small and the 
heatsink fits the wrong way to get proper airflow.  I'll fix this when I 
have some case money. :-)
dow


Christopher Russell wrote:

>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
>
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>>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
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>>Van L. Loggins wrote:
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>>>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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