57C with a Swiftech MC370-BLA w/Delta and the case sides off?!?

[joe4324]

I need your guys help to figure out if I'm doing somthing wrong. I recently bought a Swiftech MC370-BLA because my system was running REALLY hot once I got my 1.33/266 tbird. Asus Probe was giving me upwards of 67-70C under full load with my old generic Coolermaster Heatsink. so I went out and bought what is supposed to be the second best on the market with the louder (more cfm delta fan) and some arctic silver.

the installation was seamless it went on like a dream so much better then that those brackets and the I'mgoingtobreakyour$200motherboard golden orbs. (I actually broke my orb because I had to twist on it so hard to get it off I bent the metal really bad) I globed on a liberial coating of arctic silver and losened up the screws untill the springs were pulling the HS down onto the chip and thats it. there is a "Little" bit of float as in I can move the HS a little bit I dont know if this is normal. but those springs arent very big so I'm guessing that is what they are supposed to do.

My room temp is probably around 80F and with sides/top of my case off underload I get anywere from 54-58C on my cpu. My motherboard isnt too bad. usually around 85-90F

the fan on the HS says GlobalWIN is this the Delta fan i was told I was going to get or did I get ripped and get a pud fan? its loud and moves alot of air but I'm not sure if its the delta or not. (is delta a type of globalwin fan?)

can you think of any other reasons why my temps are still so hot. or is this normal for this HS and around 80F room temp? It just doesnt seem right to me.

 

[NesuD]

sometimes that float effect you mention can actually be a slight imbalance in the pressure exerted on each side of the heatsink. I have that heatsink fan combo with the same cpu and only on the warmest of days like 90 + will it get up to 55c. I had The same problen at first with mine and what i discovered with a little experimentation was that there was actually more pressure on one clip than the other which caused it to not have an optimal contact of the surface of the die. By lightly applying pressure over each clip and watching for cpu temp changes i was able to determine which side was not getting good contact. I then tightened the screw on the opposite side from it which slightly decreased the pressure on the tighter spring to equalize the pressure on the die surface and get a more efficient contact. Caution is recommended when you do this as you need to have the system running to moniter the temp changes as you make the adjustments. Another caution when tightening the screw do it in 1/10th turns and give it a minute between turn to watch for temp changes also recommend running rc5 while doing it since this will max your temps and show changes much more quickly. yea thats the Delta 38cfm fan from the sounds of it

 

[NesuD]

it is 83 degrees in my case right now completely closed uo and my cpu temp is showing at 54c with my system at 100% cpu load running the rc5 client. I would say you are a little warm if there is a 100% cpu load although if it is running stable i wouldn't lose any sleep over it. If that is an idle temp you should be able to improve on that quite a bit. Another thing i did was to lower my voltage a little. Most socet a board actually run the cpu core higher than the 1.75 that amd specs them for. My board when set to 1.75 actually runs mine at 1.88 so i started stepping the core voltage down to 1.625 which actually runs the cpu at 1.76 and that brought my load temps down 3-4c.

 

[joe4324]

I checked your t1500 rig, are those temps while your running at 1500? if so then I should be ALOT cooler then that because I'm not Overclocking. *yet* hehe. is there anything you can think of that could be adding to my heat? PSU fan reversed? or somthing? hehe I dont really know.

 

[NesuD]

no those are my temps at 1.33 I have it clocked back right now because of the warm temps as i don't have ac. Case cooling is really important My case basically runs at room temp. I have an antec sx1040 with 4 case fans 2 intake an2 exhausting out the back plus i added a 92 mm fan over the cpu northbridge in my side panel. not sure but i think that asus probe actually reads higher than the board reports kind of a built in compensation thing. try a different app for temp and voltage monitering I use mbprobe it seems to report exactly what the bios shows. Thing to keep in mind to is that you can't directly compare readings from 1 model board to a different board as some of them vary considerably. My msi turbo has a tendency to report temps 3-6c warmer than most other boards.