Having trouble cooling my CPU, and I'm no newbie!

[coolian]

Subject says it all. My CPU keeps on overheating (according to "ASUS Probe" under windows. I can only imagine what my temp gets up to in Linux.

Specs:
ASUS P3v4x w/P3 733 Slot 1 CPU
2 sticks Mushkin rev 1.5 = 256mb
Voodoo 3 3500 TV vid card
IBM 7200 30 gb hdd
All slots full of cards:
DVD decoder
sound card
network card
modem


Running this all in an Antec 1030B case with 4 big ole fans pointed the correct way (bottom air in, top air out), the hard drive fan in place, a 2coolpc Plus and a Card Cooler XT. Cooling the CPU is a stock cpu fan with some copper cooling grease, but I have had the Alpha P125 with the copper baseplate on there as well, and the Alpha seemed to defy the laws of physics and made the CPU heat up faster. This is of course, all according to the temp sender unit in the CPU slot. The rest of the case never peaks 20C, while the CPU can go as high as 105C while running Norton Antivirus, or some other such high CPU usage program.

ANY help would be appreciated.

Brendan
:Q

 

[GT1999]

That's a hell of a lot of cooling. Just that CardCooler XT by itself should keep your graphics card and CPU in the safe zone - even with default cooling. I'd bet that probe isn't reading the temps correnctly. As long as the heatsink isn't scorching hot and it's running stable I say don't worry about it. You know somethings wrong when even the Alpha isn't helping out.

G|T

 

[Mikewarrior2]

CPUs hitting 105C?

Are you sure that isn't 105F? 105C would fry a p3.



Mike

 

[Lalakai]

borrow a contact heat sensor and check the unit while under stress; sounds like you have a faulty sensor in the existing setup. Like Geekish said, if you're not locking up at those temps, it's doubtful that your cpu is actually reaching those temps.

 

[GD695372]

Noo way that's the right temp unless if your thermal grease/pad/etc. is applied correctly. I'd double-check it before doing anything else. The alpha shoulda kept it a lot cooler.