3.2 prescott, how do i get the temps under control

[bisket]

MBM5 shows:

Cpu usually stays 49-56C
Case usually stays 31-35C

The chip has a xp-90c heatsink with a 92mm Panaflo Fan. I have a fan in the front of the case @ the bottom that's blowing in and a fan towards the top of the case in the back that is blowing out.

I'd like to get these temps lower because my office is staying wamer then I like, even with the house AC on this is the warmest room in the house.

I do have another comp in the room but it runs at 39C, pretty much, all the time.

 

[klah]

I'd like to get these temps lower because my office is staying wamer then I like

The only way to reduce the amount of heat the cpu is generating is to reduce the voltage and frequency. Reducing the temperature of the cpu by blowing more air on it will not change the amount of heat it generates.

 

[Markfw]

Sell it and get an AMD Athlon64 Venice, or X2.

 

[bisket]

mods you can delete this.

i did some searching, but i'll just search more.

 

[Markfw]

And what does that mean ? Klah's response and mine are the same. You have a good HSF, but then you have a HOT cpu that generates a lot of heat, your room will be hot even with water-cooling. Heat is heat, you can only move it around once it is generated.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: bisket
MBM5 shows:

Cpu usually stays 49-56C
Case usually stays 31-35C

The chip has a xp-90c heatsink with a 92mm Panaflo Fan. I have a fan in the front of the case @ the bottom that's blowing in and a fan towards the top of the case in the back that is blowing out.

I'd like to get these temps lower because my office is staying wamer then I like, even with the house AC on this is the warmest room in the house.

I do have another comp in the room but it runs at 39C, pretty much, all the time.

Honestly, that's pretty good for a Prescott core. My old 2.8 Prescott did about those same temps with a Zalman copper heatsink.

 

[thescreensavers]

mine old prescot was around thous temps also

 

[LTC8K6]

Those temps are okay for a Prescott, but they are higher than mine which has the stock cooler.

You can try some AS5.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: bisket
MBM5 shows:

Cpu usually stays 49-56C
Case usually stays 31-35C

The chip has a xp-90c heatsink with a 92mm Panaflo Fan. I have a fan in the front of the case @ the bottom that's blowing in and a fan towards the top of the case in the back that is blowing out.

It's possible that you can get the recorded temperature at the point of the sensor's attachment to show better heat CONTROL, drawing off the heat faster than it is generated. There are larger heat sinks, such as the SI-120, and the newest figure eight Zalman heat sink, that will make the CPU itself cool off faster.

But what several respondents answered was that the overall room itself will continue to be affected in exactly the same way by the total amount of heat generated by the P4. Intel's chips use a LOT of juice, and they create much more waste heat than other kinds of microprocessors. The Pentium M chips for laptops run cooler, and are more closely related to P3's, same as the next generation of Intel cpu's will be, all running at lowered rates of electrical consumption. If it's the CPU's temps you want adjusted, and not the room's, then start out trying a 120 mm fan on the XP-90 -- I believe there's a Thermalright fan clip for the larger fan size you can use.

I'd like to get these temps lower because my office is staying wamer then I like, even with the house AC on this is the warmest room in the house.

I do have another comp in the room but it runs at 39C, pretty much, all the time.

If you had some hope that getting the heat bled off the CPU more rapidly might affect the overall room temperatures, it will not. Some of the same things we do cooling the insides of a PC case can also be applied in a room. A small desk fan, located in the right spot, can improve the local air circulation so it moves the heated air toward the intake ducts more effectively, making the AC work better.

 

[fatty4ksu]

Do you really think the CPU is at fault for your room being hot?

 

[DrMrLordX]

Hey, my Thunderbird was at fault when it heated up my room. Waves of heat came off that thing.

I can see a Prescott doing the same.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX
Hey, my Thunderbird was at fault when it heated up my room. Waves of heat came off that thing.

I can see a Prescott doing the same.

My T-Bird 1.3 was only slightly hotter than an XP 2800, and I have an XP 2600, running at XP 2200 speeds because that MB's BIOS hasn't been upgraded, or else simply never could reach that one's speed, can't recall, but it seems pretty hot also. When I had the T-Bird, 2600, and 2800, all three running on a summer day, the room AC in here was not keeping up. I swapped the T-Bird for an XP-2100 CPU, and no matter how many BIOSes I tried, that MB still runs the CPU at XP 1500 speeds, so it runs very cool. I swapped the XP 2600 for an XP-M 2400, and with all three running, the total is something the window AC in here finally could keep up with.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Hes not going to change his room temps by dissipatying the heat quicker off his CPU...the heat has to go somewhere.....

with that said...my 3.2 with stock heat sink idled at 47c and under laod was at 74c.....

with the XP120 it idles at 27c and under load is 38c.......

ambient roon temp being 24c

 

[imported_Kiwi]

That 3.2EE makes a piddly old T-Bird seem like a frigid ice cube by comparison!

 

[bisket]

thanks for all the replies.

now i understand, thanks to you guys, more about this. i poured over the prescott thread once again and i realize my temps are ok. so i'm just going to put a window ac in my office. it's located above the garage, so kinda hot anyways and only one ac vent blows in.

so the window ac should take care of the prob. thanks again.

Markfw900: your response and klah's was not the same.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Sell it and get an AMD Athlon64 Venice, or X2.

:thumbsup: I'd have to agree on this one.

 

[Xpage]

MY OCed Tbird is good enough so I do not have to use heat, I just leave my PC on down here in TX. Though I will be getting an x3800 probably around december

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Xpage
MY OCed Tbird is good enough so I do not have to use heat, I just leave my PC on down here in TX. Though I will be getting an x3800 probably around december

The one I retired last summer was pretty hot-running for its speed (also a 1.33), but the particular Gigabyte Via 133A MB it was in wasn't much for OCing. Presently, that MB has a 2100 XP that it wants to run at 1500 XP speeds. By comparison, I can now hold onto the heat sink while the system is at full tilt, and would almost have gotten a blister touching it with the old CPU!

We're having our second cold snap of the fall, but I'm still wearing shorts around the house, with the several XP's serving as mini space heaters in south Texas. My A64 is unlikely to be budgetable for at least another year, and even then I'll probabbly feel I need to do either NF3 or ULi to get a little more mileage from AGP.

 

[TLScrappy]

My P4 3.4 Ghz will raise my room temp by 4-5 degrees within 1 hour of playing BF.

Currently Room Temp 70 degrees after 1 hour of gameplay 74 degrees

Durinng the Summer months room temp started at 78 degrees after 1 hour og gameplay 85 degrees.

My A/C can't keep up plus that P4 furnace doesn't help the situation.

I don't overclock and my P180 case has four fans running.

XP-90 on the CPU