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Prescott is HOT

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movingincircles

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Hi!

I bought a retail Prescott cpu with boxed fan, didn't need to apply paste. Anyways when I play counter-strike source for 5 minutes, my comp shuts down from overheating

cooling solutions?

better cpu fan?

HOW TO COOL THE FRICKEN PRESCOTT???
 
Originally posted by: movingincircles
HOW TO COOL THE FRICKEN PRESCOTT???
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Phase change? Though I think that only gets it down near an Athlon-M with a 500rpm fan. /fanboi

Seriously, a new heatsink and some proper thermal compound will help.
 
Originally posted by: movingincircles
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what are you confused about. you bought a hot CPU and are now suprised by that? a simple search of "prescott" in these forums would have yielded all the information you would have needed to find out you got borked on the CPU. you should have gotten the northwood if you are an "intel guy", or the athlon64.
 
You said you didn't need any thermal paste: there is your second biggest mistake. You can probably fix things by removing the heatsink, cleaning the remains of the TIM off the CPU and heatsink, and properly applying some AS 5 or AS Ceramique. It's well worth the money to use the good stuff as you have found out.
 
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I'm supposed to apply thermal paste?

it looked like the boxed cpu already had some applied

My cpu temp at 0% and i mean doing NOTHING is 50 C

case temp is 17 c which i think it is wrong
 
Originally posted by: movingincircles
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I'm supposed to apply thermal paste?

it looked like the boxed cpu already had some applied

My cpu temp at 0% and i mean doing NOTHING is 50 C

case temp is 17 c which i think it is wrong
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You might want to grab some temps when the CPU is running at full load. You should be fine with the thermal pad that came on the heatsink, but obviously something is wrong.
 
It crashes? Isn't the P4 suposed to have thermalthroteling to prevent it from crahsing? I seem to remember an article on tomshardware (ok I know, not the most reliable site out there, but at least they shouldn't lie outright) where they removed the heatsink and the computer still didn't crash, it just ran terible slow.
 
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It crashes? Isn't the P4 suposed to have thermalthroteling to prevent it from crahsing? I seem to remember an article on tomshardware (ok I know, not the most reliable site out there, but at least they shouldn't lie outright) where they removed the heatsink and the computer still didn't crash, it just ran terible slow.
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It will also shut itself down when it gets too hot. The thermal pad they put on a retail heatsink/fan is good enough where your CPU should not overheat.

Do you have any other case fans in your system? Is your PC custom built or did you buy it (i.e. Dell, Gateway, so on?)

What video card do have in there?

Need complete specs and setup details from you before you can really get any help here.

Lastly, have you tried to take the heatsink and put it back in (it could not be making good contact with CPU)?
 
When on full load, the fan goes to 5500 rpm and after 5 minutes, it shuts down to prevent overheating, shuts down at 60 C


I have 2 case fans, one in the back which is a vantec stealth which goes around 2100+ rpm i think, and one in the fron which is a generic fan that goes around 3100+ rpm. I have a geforce 2 mx 200, soon to be 9600 after the rma comes back.

Custom built, some generic case

i'll try reputting it back in
 
this is why they canned Tejas, you think prescott was hot , Tejas was a FIRE (150 watts or more), and it was also canned due to yields concerning 90 nm, or so i was told. Inq had a story about it.
 
Here are some suggestions:

1) as a fact-finding step, put your case out in the open, take the side cover off, and aim a house fan in the side. Now you have lots of cooling. Give the system a heavy workout and see if the improved cooling helped fix the problem.

2) If it did, then make sure your case is in an open area where it can get plenty of air (not in a cupboard or something), and improve your case airflow. Exhaust is your friend. If your case really doesn't allow for much exhaust flow, due to very restrictive grillework over the rear exhaust fan or poor intake vents, then kick that case to the side and get a well-ventilated case. Newegg has the SLK3700AMB on sale for $64 shipped if you're in the US, which comes with a 120mm exhaust fan and a dual-fan PSU.

3) With proper case airflow, the stock pad on the Intel heatsink should get the job done, it just needs enough cool air to work with. So maybe hold off on that until you've fixed the case-airflow issue.

4) Your motherboard may be the one doing the shutdown, and 60C is premature since the P4's thermal throttling begins only at 67C (IIRC). Go into the BIOS and see if you can raise that a little.
 
i think i found my problem

check out the dust on the heatsink

http://s87744349.onlinehome.us/dustheat.jpg

and the removed dust

http://s87744349.onlinehome.us/dustout.jpg


anyways, are you definately sure that i should raise the shut down temperature? i dont want to cause any damages on the cpu
:Q


thx everyone for the help!

oh and btw, last time i left the case open with a home fan right next to it, my cpu fan drops to around 2100+ rpm and my cpu still shuts down still...hopefully after cleaning it it wont be a problem.


right now it is at 47 C with 3668 rpm with the case CLOSED!!! (i usually leave it open)
 
My Northwood 3.2 is at 59C right now (@ 3.6, 1.575V, full load, fan at half speed), the Prescott can take some more heat.
 
It will be fine if you set the limit to 70c. Thats what I set mine at for my prescott. Mine gets up to about 61c under full load, athough I do have it overclocked to 3.5Ghz(its a 2.8) I am using artic silver 5 and a thermalright SP-94 with a 92mm 72.5cfm fan to cool it.
 
I have got a 3.2 ghz prescott and it is running at 42 degrees celcius. It gets up to 50 degrees celcius under a load (playing Battlefield Vietnam). I am using the retail fan/heatsink.

 
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