Poll: Need some honest feedback, what are your TBird temps? POLL :)

[SilverBack]

I'm trying to prove to someone that the TBird cpu's are inherently hotter than thier P3 counter parts. They use more watts and naturally produce more heat. Which to me doesn't make any difference.

The person in question has a Kt7 motherboard and a TBird that he swears his cpu is running at 78F or 26C. It's air cooled. He does have a blow hole in the top.
He thinks that his cpu should be around the same temp as a P3 at the same MHz rating.
Well it shouldn't.

The common problem here is the thermistor under the cpu on the KT7 doesn't touch the core at all, it's bent down touching nothing.

 

[whalen]

My athlon 700@770 at 1.85V on a VOS32 runs at <80 degrees F. I have built a few duron systems, and a 700@950 on a KT7 was reportedly at 85 deg F. I'm not sure if this is an accurate reading, but the chip is rock solid stable.

 

[groovy]

Mine's ccurrently at 89F. (TBird 800 @950) (CORB, Full Tower, 2 case fans; 1 in, 1 out)

 

[Marty]

The 1.1GHz TBird @ 1.31GHz I'm using right now is at 49C. The voltage is to the max, though, so I'm going to see if I can cool it down by dropping the voltage a step or two. That temp is at 100% usage, of course.

Marty

 

[fdiskboy]

My 850 Tbird is at 43C at full load, it drops down to about 35C idle.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

1Ghz Tbird @ 1Ghz at 1.65V runs 33C at idle with Alpha

 

[SilverBack]

Thanks for the responses everyone...

 

[Mem]

Mine is 48c under full load cracking RC5 etc but rock stable,btw I`ve a crappy case.Forgot to post this 900mhz T-bird using standard Taisol CEK 733092 heatsink/fan &amp; MSI K7T PRO.

 

[Dennis]

I've got a Duron on a KT7....that person is definitely reading his case temp, and not CPU. I've noticed that quite a few programs default to the case temp as CPU temp. My Duron 600 @ 1016Mhz, 1.85V runs at 41-43 under full load (which is all the time...since I'm running RC5), with a case temp of 26. I have a blowhole in the top of my case with a 90mm fan pumping air out, and have modified my side panel to let lots of air in (before, it was sucking air through my CD-ROM &amp; floppy drives, causing them to fill with dust, even though I have a front-fan sucking in).

I use MBM5.03 to monitor my CPU temp...very configurable program that puts the CPU temp down in the tray. http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Dennis

 

[Renob]

I have seen mine up to 40c using the VIA hardware monitor.. But I am sure the abit reads the temps low from what I have read. BTW I have great case air flow..

 

[Mikewarrior2]

First off, YOU CANNOT COMPARE TEMPS ON A SOCKET A PLATFORM. They are so darn inaccurate, and have so many weird tendencies that it screws up comparisons.

For example, Groovy's temp is impossible unless his ambient case temp is around 35F.

Secondly, T-birds inherently hotter than p3s. Send your friend to the link in my sig. Socket A mb's almost always(with the exception of the A7V compensated BioS versions) read temps lower than actual core temp, anywhere from several C to where I've seen an Updated KT7 Bios read 20C too low.

And from a science perspective, a duron/t-bird at 1ghz 1.8V pushes out roughly 54/58W respectively. A comparable clocked/voltaged p3 puts out 31W. So a T-bird/duron would run roughly 80% hotter over ambient case temp,(for example, with a PAL6035, the P3 would be 11C over ambient, the DUron CORE would be 20.5C over ambient and the t-bird would be 21.5C over ambient.


Mike

 

[AdamK47]

It took 5 hours before Mr. Mike stepped in to stop this chaos. Your slipping!

 

[AdamK47]

Oh yeah... I took my CPU temperature thermister out of my Asus A7Pro and now have it dangling out a window in my house here in Michigan. My 1.3GHz CPU at 2.5V is now running at -30 degrees C! Woohoo!

 

[Mem]

LOL... This was only a survey to show that Thunderbirds run hotter then P3 processors,if anything Mikewarrior2 as reaffirmed the point by showing our Temps are lower then the real reading.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

I didn't slip, i slept in ...


Mike

 

[jinglingxl]

My T-bird 900 @ 1000 under 1.775v in KT7 is normally around 36c
it will get little higher to around 46c when its fully operational

But the damn thing is I can never go over 1000, and my BIO highest voltage is 1.85
anyone got any tips for me to get over the 1000 mark???

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Probably the limit of your chip... What heatsink are you using, and how's the case cooling?


Mike

 

[ZeroBurn]

i've got my 1.1ghz tbird @ 1.2ghz with a PAL6035 going full load at 48 C. that's with the K7T Pro2-A bios rev. 2.0 and MBM 5.

i can't seem to get the FSB or mult any higher without having win2k spaz out on me (doesn't boot at all) so i guess i'll have to settle, doh !