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arg......heat problems

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blueghost75

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I am in the process of trying to build two computers at the moment. I have never had this many problems.

One of the problems is with heat. One of the computers has an MSI nforce board, and an Athlon xp 1900+. The first heatsink, some radial fin cooler ordered from www.nedcomp.com, did not seem to work. THe temperature went up to 50+ with 30 sec of boot. I shut down the computer, went to fry's, and bought 3 cool master heatsinks, rated to 2.0p ghz athlon xps supposedly. I replaced the heatsink, and it did the same thing. I was using arctic silver II on both. One of the other computers was an Abit KR7A RAID and athlon xp 1900, and with the radial fin cooler, the temp was stable around 43. This computer has been having stability problems under regular usage, like opening MS word and such. I have not tried the new cooler on it yet.

But why is the nforce system overheating so much? I shut it off at 51 degrees, but it was still rising.
 
Could the incorrect application of the arctic silver make the temp rise that much? I sat and watched it, and it did not go up quickly after about 53c, but that is still way too high. I removed and reinstalled the heatsink, adding another dab of the silver stuff, but it did not make any difference. I looked on arctic silver's website, and they gave some rather lengthy instructions on the application of the stuff, and I put way more on then they suggest.

anyone have any ideas? This computer is my dad's boss's christmas present for his wife. Lets just say I probably should get it working prety soon.
 
It could be a couple of things. Did you follow the directions on Arctic Silvers website? Less is better with that stuff. Also, are you sure you installed your heas sink properly? What's the board temp.
 
the board temp is 25c.

I installed the heatsink and arctic silver according to directions on the 1900+ system with the abit board, and the temp again rose up to ~50c. On that same computer before, it was at about 45, so these new heatsinks perform worse than the previous ones :|

the other thing is, what is wrong with 50c? AMD's website specifies a maximum core temp of 90c. Will the computer be stable at 50+?

I am installing win2k on the nforce computer as we speak. I will have left by the time it is done, but I will be back later this evening. Hopefully it will be nice and stable, at least. I am just having the worst time with these computers, I have never had problems like this out of the 20-30 computers i have built.
 
Ur stability probs is not due to heat coz at 51C is hot (based on ur case temp @25C) but not hot enough to cause stability prob. My A7V133C w/ stock cooler run 55C f/load...stable.
 
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