Retail core 2 duo HSF noise?

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ok, so i have an e4300 cooled by the retail cooler for the core 2 extreme x6800

i didnt have my artic silver with me so i used the pad on the heatsink. installed the hardware and vista and all that. the thing is REALLY LOUD. waaaaay louder than anything else in the system, you can hear it from a room away. I think the fan is spinning at around 3800 (i think) rpm or so. in the bios the cpu is at 34C, but in windows with speed fan im getting 55C. I tried enabling quiet fan settings in the bios and ket the target cpu temp to 55C but that just makes the fan slightly quieter for 2 seconds and spin up loud for 2 over and over again...

Is it possible i wrinkled the thermal pad while installing or does it just preform that badly, or is the retail intel HSF just this loud?

 

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also, how does one go about removing that kind of HSF? its just push pins, so how do you release it? take out the motherboard and squeeze the pins from the other side?

 

[zagood]

To remove: the push pins have little arrows on them. Twist the opposite way (pretty sure counter-clockwise) to disengage them.

Try removing the original TIM and replacing with something else. If that doesn't lower temps, get back to us.

-z

 

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will do, thanks for the info

 

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ok so i removed the HSF cleaned everything all up, and applied some arctic silver (think with a card and all that), the temp went from 58C to 52C and the fan is still spinning at 3868 RPMs, and, of course, is still loud... I updated the bios in case there was a temperature sensor problem. I guess there still could be but it seems less likely.

the heatsink really doesnt feel warm at all, but I can only touch the edge fins on it soooo im not sure. im not too worried about the temp since im not overclocking but i want it to be quieter, since it sounds like a small vacuum cleaner!

any other tips as to whats going on here or will I have to get a new HSF? (you'd think the cooler from an cpre 2 extreme x6800 would cool it quite adaquetly...)

the mobo is a ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA and cpu an e4300 at stock everything.

 

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ok so ive got it all sorted out now!

the 58C and 52C temperatures were actually readings speedfan was reporting from the graphics card!

The processor was only running at around 36C and before the AS only about 38C. So that was wholely unneccesary. I'm not sure why the HSF runs at nearly 4000RPMs, nor why the "quiet fan" bios option is so crappy, but whatever. Using speedfan i lowered the processor fan slowly and it didnt step down in speed untill 74%, then at 73% it was running at about 2200RPMs and was quieter than the hard drive and system/psu fans. so im happy.

i installed speedfan as a service on vista startup so i dont have to bother with a running program

does everyone have this trouble with HSFs or does this mobo just suck at controling the fan speed?

 

[yacoub]

speedfan doesn't just magically work, you have to set it up. read the guides on its website.