Help with cooling issues

[snowdogg187]

With stock speeds and prime95 the cpu temp to 55 after about a minute.

This is running too hot isn't it? I thought I got a pretty good cooler and case. HS fan is running at 2400 rpm(highest speed) as the back 120mm is at high speed as well.

I want the thing to run perfectly at stock speeds before I max out the oc.

Thanks again for all your help guys, I hope to hammer this out this weekend.

 

[snowdogg187]

updated post

 

[Luckyboy1]

CPU temps are well within limits, but do you have all the fans possible hung in that case?

 

[dunkster]

Tape off the side-vents and install the optional 120mm front intake fan.

The side-vent openings provide a side-to-vent flow path. In addition to poor general cooling and a noise-leak path, your hard drives have very little air flow from front intake port and will run hot.

Add the optional 120mm front intake fan, same flow-rate as rear vent fan for best efficiency.

That should provide efficient cooling for all devices.

If CPU is still too hot, replace CPU cooler with a better one.

Hope this helps!

 

[snowdogg187]

thanks dunk, I will do that. Any tape will work right?

I have no clue why antec put that plastic piece and side vents in this case!!

What do you guys think is too hot for a opteron at load?

Thanks!

 

[Luckyboy1]

As with all CPU's the more you overclock them, the lower the safe CPU temperature is. This is especially true if you overvolt a bit to get stable results. I'm sorry I can't provide a magic number, but go by what the manufacturer says is safe at stock, subtract 5 C from that and substract the same percentage of the number you've got with the percentage you overclock.

 

[dunkster]

One of my pet peeves regarding all current case designs is that it's almost impossible to buy a case without either passive or fan-induced side-vents.

Traditionally, hard drives are mounted behind the front air intake to provide cooling air flow over the drives. Current designs keep the drives up front, but reduce air flow over the drives by providing side-to-exhaust short-circuit air flow path - increasing case noise in the bargain. Who cares if hard drives operate at 50C?

Any tape will do. I used duct tape.

Hope this helps!

 

[JeffMD]

The Zalman CNPS7000-ALCU is a quiet cooler, these coolers run slow and quieter at the expense of heat removal. Your temps are more then within acceptable ranges, if you want cooler then you need to goto a performance based HSF.