I need cooling help or advice

[vengence00]

I have a copper core 1200 athlon running on a msi k-7 master board. this is the thing when I bought my cpu I went with an amd box set because I figured they would provide me with the proper cooling. after putting the thing together I checked the pc alert software only to see the system burning at 60c during Idle. so I went out and got a swiftech mc-462 which is supposed to be the best cooling outside of liquid cooling now the temperature is in the mid to high 50's could the software be wrong I mean what the hell is going on here. for that I could've saved 80 bucks and kept the old hsf. any advice on how to bring the temp down or should I just ignore the temp readings. thanks

 

[Kenmitch]

What kind of case do you have? Xtra fans? Good air circulation is essential for proper cooling....What's your system temp? It doesn't matter how good of heatsink you get without good ventilation the temps will stay high

 

[vengence00]

I have two case fans an enermax powersupply which has two fans and an alien ware hydralic case. Not to mention the monster fan that comes with the swift tech heat sink. now the temps are getting higher than when I had the original heat sink from amd in there. I can't even overclock with this thing. any suggestions.

 

[Jex]

Are you using any thermal compound? Are you sure the heat sink is actually pressing on the core?

I had a buddy that mounted a hsf once, but it wasn't pressing aginst the core completely and it toasted the thing...

 

[mrCide]

feel it.. is it hot? temp thing could be busted

 

[SammyBoy]

#1, take off ur heatsink, apply thermal compound, put ur heatsink back on making sure u have a good interface between cpu and HS. secondly, if u dont have ventilation in ur case, case temp could be like 45c, and with case temps that high ur cpu aint gonna be cool.
u need at least one fan in the front and one in the back

thirdly, what fan is on the heatsink. do u have its CFM specs?

 

[SammyBoy]

what does it say ur mobo temp is?

 

[vengence00]

here is a link to the site where I got the hsf from Swift tech
what kind of thermal compound should I use? would a heat pad suffice?

 

[vengence00]

The program only give me temps for the cpu and the case. case temp is 30c the cpu is never below 55c.

 

[cnhoff]

Be sure to mount the Swiftech the right direction.

I don't know if this is the same with your HSF, but once I mounted my PAL6035 the other way around and one edge was sitting on the socket, so there was a small gap between die and heatsink so the cpu temp went up around 5 degrees on my 1500 baby. I guess if I would not have used Arctic Silver thermal compound, I would not be in the TBird club any more ;-)