46 degrees with tornado n slk900a?

[cloud171]

Just a questoin is it normal for my temperatures to be 46 degrees celisus when running prime95 for amd athlon xp 2600+ with a slk900a and a 92mm tornado on it and only clocked up to 2.21ghz (from windows xp, woudl that be actual or amd?) and does anyone have a recommendatoin for a fan that is quieter and does the job just as well? cuz when i crank my tornado at full blast it has no effect on the temperature in any way and its just as loud when i turn it on low with my fan controller. i am not sure if it is cuz the wires are in a total mess but the case is 32 degrees celsius.


edit: changed the title to 46

 

[jcwagers]

How is the rest of your case cooling? Do you have any other case fans? If you don't, the warm air will just circulate around in the case and your temps won't improve. It's preferable to have one intake in the front and an exhaust in the back. That heatsink should do a great job and with a windtunnel fan like that tornado, you should have lower temps. Is the heatsink mounted properly? Are you using any thermal paste?

jc

 

[cloud171]

yea i have an back and front intake/outake along with 2 on the side. i did use thermal paste but it might be too thin of a layer and i am not sure if the heatsink is moutned properly, would it still moutn if it wanst on properly? when i touched it, it was warm

 

[jcwagers]

Actually....46c probably isn't that bad. You actually WANT a nice thin layer of paste. If you touched the heatsink and it was warm then it's doing the job. I wouldn't worry about it. 46C is perfectly acceptable. Even if it was 55 or 60C it would be ok. The main thing you're looking for is stability. If it's stable and not burning up temp. wise, you're good to go.

jc

 

[cloud171]

one last questoin, what temperatures would be bad?

 

[Soulkeeper]

something 60c or more would be bad

aircooling is pretty much becoming obselete when compared to water cooling and other alternatives for overclockers these days

these cpu's just get hotter and hotter
You have basically the best air cooling you can get with that setup

I wouldn't worry bout it

 

[cloud171]

i assume the 2.21ghz is the actual clock speed, how do u cacluate that in terms of amd performance?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: cloud171
i assume the 2.21ghz is the actual clock speed, how do u cacluate that in terms of amd performance?

Well, assuming you're using an 11x multiplier, it's an XP3200.

 

[ludwigvan968]

If you want to drop your temps a little more you could try some Artic Silver 5, I have a copper HS and Tornado Fan and was using thermal grease, switched to Artic Silver 5 and saw a 5-7C drop in temps, your results might not be so dramatic, but who knows, try it and find out.

 

[MegaWorks]

cloud are you using the NF7-S V.2, if yes then you're temp. are 8-10c higher

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[Peter D]

There's probably a few things causing that. Perhaps the heatsink isn't mounted properly, i.e. like this and not like this? (Thanks for the pics, mechBgon ). Is there dust on it? Poor case airflow? I know you said you a good amount of case fans, but you also said your cabling is a mess and that your case temps are 32, so IMO that could be part of the problem.

 

[joe2004]

cloud are you using the NF7-S V.2, if yes then you're temp. are 8-10c higher

Right. Who believes these temp reports anyway. Abit NF7-S underreports them for up to 10-12 C, some other boards will overreport etc. 46C seems quite fine for a prime load to me.

 

[TGHI]

Temps are hard to interpret these days. My 7NNXP reads die temperatures - whereas almost every other board reads socket temperatures - so it is hard to tell how my temperatures are in line with everyone else's - I usually get around 55C/62C idle/load with a Volcano 7 (not +).

 

[cloud171]

hmm so my temps are high for the stuff i have and the overclocking i did? and i do have arctic silver 5 on it, well heres the mess. should i take off the heatsink and reapply a new layer of aritic silver 5? or should i try to clean up that mess before i do tat? i was planning to sleeve it but just looking at that scares me away

 

[mato7742]

lol, holy sh!t. yeah that is pretty messy man, i would seriously advise to clean that up for better airflow. the point of tall cases is to have as much airflow as possible, hence why you bought it? i guarantee your temps will atleast drop 2 degree is you clean up those cables correctly. the airflow will be signficantly better.

 

[cloud171]

well here is the after picture for my case. Decided to shove most of the cables up and behind the hardcano, not the most effective but at least way better than before. i was thinking about putting some of the wires under the motherboard, would that be a good idea?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: cloud171
well here is the after picture for my case. Decided to shove most of the cables up and behind the hardcano, not the most effective but at least way better than before. i was thinking about putting some of the wires under the motherboard, would that be a good idea?

It's possible, but it looks like you've made a MAJOR cleanup as it is. How are the temps now?

- M4H

 

[Sid59]

so what is Abit ... under or over?

to contrast the OP .. my barton runs 2.2ghz on a SLK-800A and a Panaflo L1A and have idle temps of 43C and load of 50C. Im betting that 5C increase in temps if prolly worth using a Panaflo L1A. So quiet.

 

[cloud171]

well i oced it to 11x220 with vdimm at 3.0 and vcore at 1.75 and at loads it hit up to 52 degrees, so not too sure about how much it helped, at least i can get to the jumper settings , i looked at other ppl with simliar settings and cpu/heatsink/fan and their temps arent even near how high mine are, one of my frineds told me that my heatsink should be to hot for me to touch, and its just warm, might that be true?

 

[Jeff7181]

Read me

 

[cloud171]

I know its not high but like ppl with a slk900a have temperatures 10-20 degrees lower than mine and they are at a higher clock speed too

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Sid59
so what is Abit ... under or over?

to contrast the OP .. my barton runs 2.2ghz on a SLK-800A and a Panaflo L1A and have idle temps of 43C and load of 50C. Im betting that 5C increase in temps if prolly worth using a Panaflo L1A. So quiet.

I'm getting similar temps on my XP-M 2600+ with a TT SilentBoost with a 80mm Panaflo L1A (low 40's idle, 48C at full load).

 

[Jester666]

Originally posted by: MegaWorks
cloud are you using the NF7-S V.2, if yes then you're temp. are 8-10c higher

Does NF7-S underreport or overreport temps?

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: cloud171
I know its not high but like ppl with a slk900a have temperatures 10-20 degrees lower than mine and they are at a higher clock speed too

Dude..motherboards give out different temp readings, so theres could be low and yours could be high. The temps you are getting is just fine for load.