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Built my first AMD build Thursday

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QueZart

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Its a Sempron 2800+ nothing Fancy

Do these things have to "settle In"or something?

First Boot it was at 45c just after post and setting up the BIOS
Yesterday Idled around 39-41c and I suspect it hit 60 becuase it shutdown on my wife once while playing a game and i set the BIOS to do that
Today seems better so far 36-38 on the desktop

I used the Stock HSF but being my first time with this socket I might have skewered it somehow

Should I give it a few days to settle in or do ya think I need to clean, paste and reseat the HSF?
 
1.) Order new heatsink.
2.) Wait for heatsink to arrive.
3.) Clean, paste, put on said heatsink.
4.) ...
5.) Profit?
 
If you are not OCing, you should be fine... What kind of case (and how m any fans) do yo have? What is your ambient temp? Are yopu sure the fan is blowing dwn onto the heatsink.

36-38C is fine for idling... I doubt it will hit 60C under load unless you are OCing or your heatsink is screwed up or something
 
Well he said that he might have messed the heatsink up during installation. Take your heatsink and CPU off the mobo and make sure that they are making full contact with each other. If the HSF isn't even touching the CPU, your temperatures are quite explainable.
 
Originally posted by: Vegitto
1.) Order new heatsink.
2.) Wait for heatsink to arrive.
3.) Clean, paste, put on said heatsink.
4.) ...
5.) Profit?
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you rock Vegitto...!! great joke! hope everyone else got that....

underpants rock!
 
Originally posted by: ExarKun333
Originally posted by: Vegitto
1.) Order new heatsink.
2.) Wait for heatsink to arrive.
3.) Clean, paste, put on said heatsink.
4.) ...
5.) Profit?
Click to expand...

you rock Vegitto...!! great joke! hope everyone else got that....

underpants rock!
Click to expand...

Classic.

good luck man geting those temps down.

 
Are you using the latest BIOS build for your board? Because, If not. It maybe misreading it by error of the BIOS. I had a Sempron 3100+ and I ran that @ 39C degrees active. Getting rid of the heatsink for a new one is a finnacial set back. If your chassis has poor air flow whether it's positive or negative. Then you're going to receive ugly tempeture readings no matter what. First way to troubleshoot this would be to, check your cable management. Poor cable management is 9 times out of 10 the fault of a poor air flow. Which will increase the Processor temps because it's been hobbled by Parallel spagetti.

If you installed the HSF wrongly, then just take it off and reapply it again. If you're using thermal compound, then clean the heatspreader and the bottom contact of the heatsink with Isopropyl from your local drug store. 91% preferably. Q-tip dipped in Iso to clean it off is what I use. Let it dry for a second, reapply the thermal compound(if you're using it) by spreading it from edge to edge on the intergrated heatspreader. Use the Q-tip to go around the edges of the heatspreader to clean up any unwanted over slop of compound.

But, without details of your setup or pictures. It's hard to assess the problem.
 
Semprons are usually put in to silent (or near silent) rigs so high(er) CPU temps is nothing to get excited about. If you are staying 60C or below under extreme load, you are fine. No reason to waste money cooling a value chip 😀

 
Sorry ISP been acting up...

The Whole Rig was a very Low Budget Setup

The Case is an A-Top X-Bloade
Chaintech vnf3 250 MB

Latest BIOS


Stock HSF, I did not use thermal compound just the grease that comes on it
System Temp Seems to stay 4-5 degrees below CPU. right now Cpu is at 39c System at 35c

hhm As far as Cable management goes I think Its more thyen adequate, Not as spectacular as some I have seen give me a few to prop a Pic
 
Bump shutdown to 70*C and see if you have any problems. Stock cooler @ stock settings should work fine. But since system temp is so near cpu temp you very well might have a case airflow problem. I'd be worrying about my gfx card first... since their cooling is usually only barely sufficient as is, and in a hot case they can EASILY have problems running @ stock.
 
Yes I ordered soem new case Fans

I think I found something tho, the lil "hook" on the end of the swing lever on my CPU HSF isn't a Hook, the Pics I've seen Look more Like a "C" truncated alil at the Bottom, Mine Looks more Liek a Upsidedown "L" appeasr it is missing the last lil horizontal piece of the hook, so I'm prolly not getting a tight fit on the CPU
 
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