my new 3.0C is 66C...HELP!!!!

[NOBEL]

I installed everything properly, turned on the PC and within 2 mins felt warm/hot air. So I go into the BIOS and see the MB temp is 30C and the CPU is 66C.
Help

 

[neutralizer]

What motherboard?

 

[NOBEL]

ASUS P4C800E DLX

 

[swank121]

Whoah. Are you using the retail P4 heatsink? I have the same CPU and I get up to about 39C at the most with the Intel heatsink. Make sure the heatsink is making proper contact with the CPU and that you have applied a thin layer of thermal grease between the CPU and heatsink.

 

[swank121]

I have the same motherboard too. Good choice in hardware! 😀

 

[NOBEL]

Yeah, the fan is the intel one. the heatsink had paste on it and it is making contact with the CPU.

I have no clue what to do.

 

[NOBEL]

"Uhh, you have to put thermal paste on the CPU and then attach the heatsink and fan. Turn off the computer before you fry something. "

I was on a java chat and some guy said that....

but there is paste on the Heatsink which will be on the CPU.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: NOBEL
"Uhh, you have to put thermal paste on the CPU and then attach the heatsink and fan. Turn off the computer before you fry something. "

I was on a java chat and some guy said that....

but there is paste on the Heatsink which will be on the CPU.

he is obviously a moron. anyway, my asus board temps are funky as well....my probe reads my cpu as 36C, yet my bios reads it as 66c 😕 if its stable, let it be.

 

[swank121]

Make sure it is properly attached .. I've installed an Intel heatsink and thought it was fine but one of the clips wasn't on all the way. Also check your BIOS settings and make sure the voltages are all in spec.

 

[XBoxLPU]

new bios ?

 

[IPLaw]

It is possible to orient a hsf the wrong way, causing it to contact only half of the cpu. take a close look as your hsf and make sure that it is the same distance from the mb at every corner; if not, then its mounted the wrong way.

 

[arcenite]

<mortalkombat> TOOOAAASSTTYYYY!!!! </moralkombat>

 

[cockeyed]

Don't take this the wrong way, but did you remove the stock heat transfer pad from the heatsink before using the paste? Since you said "but there is paste on the Heatsink which will be on the CPU", I assume that you are using HS compound instead of the HT pad. Definitly something is wrong though; my 2.6c is at 25C right now and only hits ~38C after an hour of loops in 3dMark01, using the stock HT pad. Maybe it is as someone else said, that the HS is not seated properly.

 

[nCred]

You should have bought the A64, like most people said.

 

[jmagg]

Make sure your rear fan is exhausting the hot air, not blowing in. That will account for 5-10c

 

[imported_Phil]

Is the heatsink itself actually warm? My Athlon reports a 60C load (3000+) in Motherboard Monitor 5, but the heatsink itself is quite cool to the touch.

If the 'sink is warm, or even hot, then something may be wrong. Remove the heatsink and check that the paste is spread over the heatspreader on the P4 evenly, with no "patches". If you can see patches in the paste coverage then clean it off and re-apply a 1-2mm thick layer onto the heatsink, and try again.

Having said that, my girlfriend's 2000+ reports 92C (yes, ninety-two degrees Celcius), and is quite hot to the touch. Works cooler in a different board, and I tried a different 2000+, no difference. Tried an Aero 7+ and an X-Dream to see if that'd cool it better, but it's still roasting hot. Pah. At the end of the day, she's got a 5yr Service Agreement on the unit, so if it goes pop, they replace the CPU next-day.
It's a pre-built unit too, so there's no VCORE settings or anything in the BIOS, and it's as stable as b*ggery, so meh 😛

Like someone else said, if it's stable (and I mean looping 3DMark + some sort of distributed computing program in the background for several hours), then leave it alone 🙂

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: nCred
You should have bought the A64, like most people said.

Ditto. My new A64 3000+ runs at a toasty 38c at full load, and OC'ed. (seti)

Edit: went up to 38c after an hour

 

[Ionizer86]

If you want to spend a bit of $, get some AS5. I lowered my temps on load by 8ºC with that stuff.

 

[swank121]

Originally posted by: cockeyed
Don't take this the wrong way, but did you remove the stock heat transfer pad from the heatsink before using the paste? Since you said "but there is paste on the Heatsink which will be on the CPU", I assume that you are using HS compound instead of the HT pad. Definitly something is wrong though; my 2.6c is at 25C right now and only hits ~38C after an hour of loops in 3dMark01, using the stock HT pad. Maybe it is as someone else said, that the HS is not seated properly.

Intel uses paste on higher clocked processors, not the heat transfer pad.

 

[Actaeon]

Originally posted by: DopeFiend
Is the heatsink itself actually warm? My Athlon reports a 60C load (3000+) in Motherboard Monitor 5, but the heatsink itself is quite cool to the touch.

If the 'sink is warm, or even hot, then something may be wrong. Remove the heatsink and check that the paste is spread over the heatspreader on the P4 evenly, with no "patches".

That is incorrect. If the heatsink is not warm, it isn't doing its job (taking heat from the processor to the heatsink).

If it is cool, then the heat is not transfering properly.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: Actaeon

Originally posted by: DopeFiend
Is the heatsink itself actually warm? My Athlon reports a 60C load (3000+) in Motherboard Monitor 5, but the heatsink itself is quite cool to the touch.

If the 'sink is warm, or even hot, then something may be wrong. Remove the heatsink and check that the paste is spread over the heatspreader on the P4 evenly, with no "patches".

That is incorrect. If the heatsink is not warm, it isn't doing its job (taking heat from the processor to the heatsink).

If it is cool, then the heat is not transfering properly.

Yup, Actaeon is right. My heatsink gets toasty when I have the cpu priming. I've noticed that the bios on my IS7 reads 5-8C higher than it does in MBM or Abit's hardware monitor. I've been up to 70C with no problems. 😎

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I would much rather have my heatsink scalding hot than ice cold.

If it's hot, that means it's working 🙂