Looking for maybe a few cooling solutions and comparisons to my overclocked barton 2500+ (to 3200+)

[stonecold3169]

Alright guys, I actually did this this fall, but I guess thats irrelevant.

I'm running a chieftec/chenbro/antec/whatever clone case, with a barton 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ speeds (11x200), at a vcore of 1.69v on an Epox 8RDA+. Performance and prime95 are rock solid.

On to the questions;

Alright, According to my bios and Epox unified system diagnostics manager, I'm getting case temps of 24C/73F, Which seems to be quite good considering room temp is ranging from 69-70F. However, while well within acceptable levels, my cpu temps seem to be a bit high compared to these case temps, at 39-41C idle, and then 43-44C load. While these temps are still low, they seem a lot higher compared to case temps then most people's rigs, and I never really thought about this until now.

As for what I'm running for cooling, I have a thermalright slk-800 hs, with a YS Tech 80mm adjustable fan running at 3800RPM, here on newegg. The fan is blowing onto the heatsink right now.

For case cooling, I have 2 Vantec stealth 80mm fans, one blowing in from the bottom front of the case, one blowing out from the bottom back of the case.

Finally, I have a generic 80mm fan blowing air into the case from a side blowhole, the fan is blowing just a bit below the CPU, more towards my radeon 9700pro.





Any suggestions on how I could lower my cpu temps? by other people's rigs, I should be getting load in the uper 30's, I'd imagine. Also, I forgot to mention, I'm using artic silver 1 for my thermal compound, would a step up to say 5 or ceramique make a noticable difference? I'm not so much concerned with the couple of degrees as I am the fact that I'd like to pick up a fanbus and keep the fans running lower when possible, which I would imagine to be most of the time.


Thanks in advance!
francika@clarkson.edu

 

[Cheetah8799]

I use a SLK900a on my mobile 2500+ at 2.5ghz @ 1.75v (2.4ghz @ 1.7c at the moment due to the summer heat). I use AS3 as thermal paste. I also have a 92mm fan on the SLK, which runs full speed at about 2400 rpms or so, but isn't very loud at all.

I have 2 side 92mm intakes (1 over cpu, 1 over video), 2 exhaust in my psu (modded the case for this to work), and 1 exhaust in the bottom front. I use a Vantec Nexus to adjust the fan speeds on all fans except the cpu fan. I also have an Arctic Cooler on my 9800 Pro which I suppose helps blow a little air out of the case.

Idle temps for me right now are 30C cpu and 28C ambient, according to MBM5. Room temps are about 70F or so.

I actively adjust my fanbus between gaming and non gaming usage to help control the temps.

I'd say you are doing fine with your system. The only thing I can think of for your cpu temp being higher than mine would be that you have a SLK-800, which may not dissipate heat quite as well as the 900 models. You could also cut your 80mm side intake to be larger for a 92mm or 120mm fan. That way you won't have as much noise being generated. You could then put all your fans on a fanbus and not really worry.

One other note. Your idle cpu temp seems really close to the load temp. I see quite a bit of change in my temps between idle and load. I'm wondering if maybe your mobo isn't reporting the temps properly. Same for the ambient temp. 24C is like 5C lower than mine with roughly the same room temps. I dunno, just a thought. Maybe mine are messed up too, never know.

 

[stonecold3169]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
I use a SLK900a on my mobile 2500+ at 2.5ghz @ 1.75v (2.4ghz @ 1.7c at the moment due to the summer heat). I use AS3 as thermal paste. I also have a 92mm fan on the SLK, which runs full speed at about 2400 rpms or so, but isn't very loud at all.

I have 2 side 92mm intakes (1 over cpu, 1 over video), 2 exhaust in my psu (modded the case for this to work), and 1 exhaust in the bottom front. I use a Vantec Nexus to adjust the fan speeds on all fans except the cpu fan. I also have an Arctic Cooler on my 9800 Pro which I suppose helps blow a little air out of the case.

Idle temps for me right now are 30C cpu and 28C ambient, according to MBM5. Room temps are about 70F or so.

I actively adjust my fanbus between gaming and non gaming usage to help control the temps.

I'd say you are doing fine with your system. The only thing I can think of for your cpu temp being higher than mine would be that you have a SLK-800, which may not dissipate heat quite as well as the 900 models. You could also cut your 80mm side intake to be larger for a 92mm or 120mm fan. That way you won't have as much noise being generated. You could then put all your fans on a fanbus and not really worry.

One other note. Your idle cpu temp seems really close to the load temp. I see quite a bit of change in my temps between idle and load. I'm wondering if maybe your mobo isn't reporting the temps properly. Same for the ambient temp. 24C is like 5C lower than mine with roughly the same room temps. I dunno, just a thought. Maybe mine are messed up too, never know.

See, the main thing that made me see this and notice there might be a problem, actually, was the closeness of the idle and load temps. That definitely made me think there was a serious bottleneck in the system that wasn't connected directly with the hs or the cpu itself, because the added heat doesn;t seem to affect it much... made me question the thermal paste maybe.

Thanks for the input

 

[stonecold3169]

no more suggestions?

 

[damonpip]

You could try a different thermal paste, but 43C under load really isn't anything to be worried about.