OK, so here's my issue, maybe you can help me out:
I installed an opteron 165 on an asus A8NSLI-Deluxe on monday, and it was running great, or so it seemed. It was handling an OC of 290 FSB stable, running 2x Prime95, running world of warcraft, whatever I'd throw at it. The problem was, I didn't realise how hot it was running. When I loaded up a temp monitoring program, it said I was hitting 45c idle, 65c+ at load. Again, as I said, completely stable.
I have an XP-90 with a 92mm panaflo on it, and at stock speeds, the heatsink is cool to the touch. It only got warm when I had it OCed. I reinstalled it a few times, and each time it appeared that the HSF was making contact with the processor and the arctic silver fine. I tried the right ammount of paste, too much paste, about 6 different installs in all, and each time, the temps stayed where they were each time.
Now, on my old chip (130nm 3500+) I used the same HSF, and it cooled it wonderfully. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the heat plate on the chip, since even contact seems to be made. Is it possible that AMD themselves didn't put enough paste between the silicon and the plate internally? Or maybe I fried my temp diode? These are the only things I could possibly think of that could be the problem.
I can't even try the OEM HSF, because of the mounting bracket the XP-90 uses, so I contacted Newegg for an RMA, but I'd rather solve the problem without a return, if possible. Anyone have any experiences or suggestions?
I installed an opteron 165 on an asus A8NSLI-Deluxe on monday, and it was running great, or so it seemed. It was handling an OC of 290 FSB stable, running 2x Prime95, running world of warcraft, whatever I'd throw at it. The problem was, I didn't realise how hot it was running. When I loaded up a temp monitoring program, it said I was hitting 45c idle, 65c+ at load. Again, as I said, completely stable.
I have an XP-90 with a 92mm panaflo on it, and at stock speeds, the heatsink is cool to the touch. It only got warm when I had it OCed. I reinstalled it a few times, and each time it appeared that the HSF was making contact with the processor and the arctic silver fine. I tried the right ammount of paste, too much paste, about 6 different installs in all, and each time, the temps stayed where they were each time.
Now, on my old chip (130nm 3500+) I used the same HSF, and it cooled it wonderfully. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the heat plate on the chip, since even contact seems to be made. Is it possible that AMD themselves didn't put enough paste between the silicon and the plate internally? Or maybe I fried my temp diode? These are the only things I could possibly think of that could be the problem.
I can't even try the OEM HSF, because of the mounting bracket the XP-90 uses, so I contacted Newegg for an RMA, but I'd rather solve the problem without a return, if possible. Anyone have any experiences or suggestions?
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