Here's the deal-
I have a thunderbird 900(blue core), on a KT7-Raid MB, with 192 MB VC Sdram from Mwave. As far as cooling, I have an Alpha pal6035, and I use artic silver thermal compound. I have no blow holes in my case(enlight 7237) but I have 2 sunon 80mm fans inside(one blowing in and one blowing out).
My problem is that for some reason this TBird 900 chip is running hot. I previously had a TBird 800@1050 on this setup and under heavy load, the cpu barely got over 33C(going by motherboard monitor). I had this TBird900 @ 1100 with 1.85v. It was unstable at 1150 and loaded windows at 1200 but thats it. So at 1100, it runs at 41C -45C under load(which isnt too bad), but sometimes when it gets like 48C if my room is hot, the comp will just restart on its own. Is this normal?? To try to lose some heat, I backed the chip down to 1000 @ 1.8v and even 900 @ 1.75v and it is still like 36-38c idle, 42C under load. And again, it restarts by itself when the temp gets into the high 40s. Why is this? To double check, I reinstalled the alpha and redid the thermal paste and still high temps. Any suggestions??? Thanks for listenening.
Rob
I have a thunderbird 900(blue core), on a KT7-Raid MB, with 192 MB VC Sdram from Mwave. As far as cooling, I have an Alpha pal6035, and I use artic silver thermal compound. I have no blow holes in my case(enlight 7237) but I have 2 sunon 80mm fans inside(one blowing in and one blowing out).
My problem is that for some reason this TBird 900 chip is running hot. I previously had a TBird 800@1050 on this setup and under heavy load, the cpu barely got over 33C(going by motherboard monitor). I had this TBird900 @ 1100 with 1.85v. It was unstable at 1150 and loaded windows at 1200 but thats it. So at 1100, it runs at 41C -45C under load(which isnt too bad), but sometimes when it gets like 48C if my room is hot, the comp will just restart on its own. Is this normal?? To try to lose some heat, I backed the chip down to 1000 @ 1.8v and even 900 @ 1.75v and it is still like 36-38c idle, 42C under load. And again, it restarts by itself when the temp gets into the high 40s. Why is this? To double check, I reinstalled the alpha and redid the thermal paste and still high temps. Any suggestions??? Thanks for listenening.
Rob
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