Recent content by Islandtime

Bump

What about the thermal paste? Did you reapply? Msi boards usually run at a reasonable temp. If the bios is up-to-date then I would have to guess that the thermal paste wasn't cleaned off and reapplied or that the heatsink may be mounted slightly wrong. I've built several PC's latley, all MSI...

The temps on your old mobo were correct, you are running hot on the new board. Lets solve this in steps. 1. How many PCI slots are in use? unless there are more than 2 I would leave the setting at 32. 2. Did you apply new thermal paste? You should have changed the paste after switching the...

Thunderbirds Thunderbird data sheet click here and scroll to the end of the data sheet for how to identify. Durons Athlon XP I hope this helps. There are links to data sheets, white papers, etc.. on each of these pages.

Your Idle temps are high for a Northwood but then you are overclocking the punk out of it. From what I've found out so far, 40-42C is the norm for a Prescott. 55-60C seems to be the high end under load. This is only from talking to a limited number of Prescott users. That is why I'd like to put...

I would like to put together a table/listing of Precott CPU temps for comparison. It's a given that these chips run alot hotter than the Northwoods but trying to find info on the "Norm" is hard to do. I think it would help alot of us Prescott users to see where we stand with our operating temps...