OC'd TBird/1.82 Volts = 52C...how about yours?

[MichaelD]

I stumbled around trying to come up w/a subject line that wasn't 30 words long...hopefully someone's reading this.

My 1Gig TBird is running at 1155 right now (11 x 105) at 1.82 volts. (The voltage step that's one click lower than the max of 1.85).

Under heavy load, like playing UT, I've hit 52C. Interestingly enough, when running Prime95 for 12 hours the temp never goes above 45C. Anyway, immediately after closing down UT (or other CPU intensive application), idle temp drops to a nice 32-33C. While surfing the net, or word processing, CPU temp is around 40-43C.

I'm curious if my "high" temps are due to the voltage being upped so high. I've been thinking about dropping back down to a 10.5 multiplier, because my CPU will run at 10.5 at the stock 1.725 voltage. I guess this is kind of an opinion poll, but I didn't want to start a "proper poll". Thanks in advance for your replies/opinions.

I posted this in the General Hardware forum....and then remembered that there was an Overclocking Forum..duh, my bad. I appreciate your answers, though!

 

[Superdoopercooper]

Hello... I have a NON overclocked T-bird 850, and I'm seeing about 48-49 degrees when surfing the net and doing other woosy stuff. Havent checked it when playing Unreal or something. So, I have determined that my case is way inadequate... I think your numbers sound just fine!!!

That's what I get for buying a mini-Mid tower (two years ago.. was great for my k6-2). Now I'm going to have to get a better case with more cooling fans.

 

[ivanov]

Tbird 900@1100 (7.5x145) runs 41C idle, 46C full load... taisol cooler used

 

[WarCon]

T-birds at or above 1ghz get really hot, 52C at max full load is actually around a normal high temp for a non overclocked T-bird. Is your ambient cool now? What's it gonna be like in summer?...

Time for watercoolers to become a normal thing for systems, unless they can get the power usage down on processors.

...As he tries to think over the whine of his delta fan....

 

[Avatar26]

Just out of curiousity, how are you determining "full load"? That would seem to be pretty arbitrary and if ya'll have a specific program you use to push it to full load, I would like to try it on my system, because right now I push no higher than 42C and I am idling at 38C. All I have is a case fan and a Super Orb. By the way, 133x10.5 on my 1.2 Ghz T-bird.

 

[h0vic]

Here's mine running at the default 1.75v:

AMD Athlon T-Bird 1GHz w/ Taisol CGK742092 (stock fan & pad)
@ 1.0(10x100) @ 42/47C
@ 1.1(11*100) @ 43/50C
@ 1.2(9*133) @ 46/51
@ 1.26(9.5*133) @ 47/53C (not completely stable)
Asus A7V133 (rev1.04) @ 23/25C

My idle and full load (running RC5) temps are pretty close compared many other people. I have heard that the Asus mobo reports temps that are higher than the actual temp. After shutting down RC5 and all other programs, my temp drops to idle in about a minute. I haven't tested it a higher voltage yet, so I wondering if that does anything.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

h0vic,

Asus boards do not "read higher than actual temp", but they read higher than other mb's. its just that most other mb's read much lower than actual cpu temp.

Avatar26,

What mb are you using?


mike