Does your Soyo Dragon Plus cause CPU to run hot

[madmickey]

Most online sources (Tom's hardware, Socket A, Linux, Hot Hardware and The Tech Report) have rated the Soyo Dragon plus as the best KT 266a motherboard. The only really negative comment was from SL central which mentioned that the CPU was running 10 degree C higher (at 48 degree C) than on a KT 133a board. For people running this motherboard due you see higher temp. Please note that Soyo has not yet been approved as a motherboard by AMD.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

the guy is out of his gourd. mine runs ~30 idle and maybe 38 at the most (that ive seen. ive never seen it higher than 36 but giving it a little room there. at 48, something is wrong with his board or software. im not running wpcredit either. if the p00ter hasnt been used for a while (like when i first come back after being gone 2 hours) it's down to about 23-24 (case temp is 22).

xp1800
soyo dragon +
alpha 8045 with 48.5 cfm ys-tech 80mm fan
as II

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

btw im running 29 right now just surfing around AT.

 

[pdampier]

Mine hovers around 39/40c surfing the web and right now is at 44c after prime95 has been running for a couple of mins

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Well, every SOcket-a MB reads temps differnetly... its entirely normal to see 10C from one board to another simply by switching mb's.



Mike

 

[DefRef]

I idle at ~37C and heat up to ~42C when playing UT, Q3 or B&W with my XP 1800+ cranked up to 1600MHz (equal to 1900+) with a Volcano 7.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< Well, every SOcket-a MB reads temps differnetly... its entirely normal to see 10C from one board to another simply by switching mb's. >>

right, but 48 is whack! what was he using to measure it? direct probe or wha? mbm 5 or the soyo program?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

you can't really tell... maybe he had a 30C case temp with a retail heatsink... for that, 48C wouldn't be an uncommon temp.

Hell, even with your setup, you're getting 16C between case and cpu temp reading. If you had a warmer case temp, 48C would be within spitting distance.



Mike

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

true, i didnt think about case temp, and ive got like 6 fans going, forgot that not everyone does that

 

[madmickey]

Thanks for the answers. I think AMD may not approve a motherboard that openly accepts overclocking, please note the Abit and Soltek motherboard have not been approved.