A7V Motherboard help!

[nathan4823]

Recently i purchased a good amount of hardware to build a computer for college. This hardware included an athlon 1 gig t-bird, Assus A7V MB. 256 megs of 133, Assus Video card, SB Live, CD Burner and DVD and a Golden Orb fan to cool my CPU. Now that everything is up and running, when i look at my asus probe program and my bios it registers my CPU temp at 150 F!!! Thats seems to be alot considering friends of mine with the same chip and fan (not same MB) usually get around MAX 120 F. Is there somthing wrong here? Any help is appreciated.

Nate

 

[hungrypete]

that temperature is within reason, though still very high. The golden orbs ARE NOT FOR socket A, so you may have damaged the A7Vs thermal probe. Be careful taking that thing on and off. The CHROME ORB is the socket a flavor, and performs better due to a fan thats twice as fast. You might consider one of the alpha coolers most of these hardcore guys here have in thier sigs. I use a chrome orb, and it cools my duron just fine. Don't kill that ghz tbird tho! Also make sure you are getting plenty of air into the case. Leave the side off the case for a couple of hours and check the temp to see if you need better ventilation.

 

[icculus]

Nathan,

HungryPete is correct, the golden orb is not for use with the socket A Tbird/Duron chips. It has been WIDELY known to damage these chips if you arent incredibly careful with it. You also need to make sure you are properly creating a bond between chip and cooler surface. Make sure to use some thermal grease. I myself use arctic silver with an alpha 6035 and it keeps my tbird down to 42C. Thermal compound is a big deal and should be properly applied to the chip surface before you screw on that golden orb. Personally, I'd ditch the golden orb and pick up either an alpha 6035 or one of those global win deals. If you want to stick with the orb you need to switch to the chrome orb. True, 150F is within spec. According to AMD you can hit 80C with these things but I doubt they are stable much above 70C.

I've also read that the golden orb comes with a thermal pad on it. If this is the case, rip it off and get some thermal compound.

Good Luck

 

[DaddyG]

Nathan,

CPU temps vary alot with different A7V revisions and BIOS versions.
Version 1.01 had an external probe, v 1.02 put the thermister under the cpu socket. BIOS versions 1002, 1003 and 1004 all report different temps. I would absolutely get rid of the GORB, they just can't move the heat that the TBIRD 1gig can put out. I would recommend the TAISOL CEK733092, available for about $11, AMD approved.