CPU cooling sugestions

[DragonFire]

Hey there!

I have a 1GHz T-Bird (AXHA) that runs fine at 1.35Ghz, 1.75 volts on a FOP38. It will bootup and start windows at 1.4ghz but when the cpu temp gets to about 38-40c my computer restarts. To seeif this was a heat problem, I up with way to connect the air vent in my room to a blowhole on the side of my case. At moment i'm running at 1.4ghz under full load and my cpu temp is about 30c.

Is there a way I can cool my cpu to about 30c that wont cost to much? I wast thinking about a peliter but I'm not sure if the FOP38 would be enouth cooling for a 85 watt tech?

Ideas?

 

[Fenix793]

To cool a bird at 1.3 - 1.4 your going to need something around a 120 watt peltier and there is no way to air cool one of those. The only option would be to invest in a watercooling setup to cool the peltier or just use a waterblock w/o a peltier. Of course it is kinda pricey...

 

[DragonFire]

Getting a watercooler kit for say $120 isnt a problem at all, Im just afraid of it leaking and destroying another cpu or motherboard.....With just watercooling what kind of temps would I get? and if I added a 125+ watt tec what kind of temps would that give me?

 

[WarCon]

This is only an estimate, but most watercoolers are capable of limiting your temperature to something like 11C over ambient, which still sounds high but thats a real temp vs "guess's" made my mobo firmware from a less than accurate setup to measure temp. Estimates go as high as 20C over the reading that you get as being the real temp. Scary huh.. Shouldn't be the AMD chips are hot running (designed to be that or should I say not designed to be cool) and real core temps of 60-75C especially with stock hsf's on 1.2's and 1.33's wouldn't surprise me. They die at 90C so your still in operating range.

The real test is improvement in performance and watercooling proves that and more.

As far as temps for peltier's, thats all based on efficiency of heat removal and not exceeding the peltiers heat handling capability. Most 120Watt and 150+Watt are rated at a difference in hot to cold sides of 69C max. So you figure a peltier can really change the temp situation.
Have seen some people talk about temps as low as -34C with a 156Watt peltier. Talk about condensation waiting to happen....