T-bird running at 89C . . . too hot?

[Ethernet]

try clocking that sucker down a tad and see if the heat goes down a tad. If I were you I would NOT touch the heatsinc if it is being recorded at over 200 F, that'll give you a second degree burn. If you want to still run at 903 try taking your voltage down a tad, if you can keep it running with less power that should also bring down the temp.

 

[Anon19]

he already touched it, he said it was warm to the touch

 

[hubbs]

My T-Bird 900 @ 950 doesnt' even run that high in Farenheit. That has to be a bad reading.

 

[XMan]

DABANSHEE, were you born an a$$hole, or did you come about it with time?

I know the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius quite well, thank you . . . Temp reading screenshot



<< The heatsink is warm to the touch . . . I'd say about 90 to 100 degrees. >>



I live in the States; I think in Fahrenheit . . . the heatsink feels about 90 degrees Fahrenheit . . . comfortably warm but not so hot that you need to pull your fingers away.

I talked to the guy I bought it from and he suggested that I drop the AGP aperture size to 64MB and see if that helped any. The chip was supposed to be a guaranteed 950, but it's not stable enough to install or load Windows at that speed. I don't know that much about VIA boards, would that be a possible solution? I've only used boards with Intel or AMD chipsets till now.

 

[Vampire]

Try reading your temp with another program, for example MBM. Those temps you're getting have GOT to be wrong. Also, have you tried carefully removing and reseating the HSF? Is the fan actually spinning?

 

[XMan]

MBM isn't working exactly right . . .it gets the fan RPMs and the core voltage, but misreports it as 1.92V. In the machine's BIOS, after running for an extended period of time, the temp is displayed as 49C, which is a little better, but still on the upper end, right?

 

[Vampire]

Trust MBMs voltage over what the system BIOS reports. From what I've read (and seen) my MSI K7T Pro2-A, when set at 1.85 volts, is actually putting out 1.88 or so.

49C is still a little high I *think*. The problem is, that Durons and TBirds don't have a bui;t in thermistor (temp probe) in the chip itself, so your reading is taken from one mounted under the chip on the MB itself. Thus readings can vary, depending on how close to the bottom of the chip the probe actually is. With that in mind, what I've read is anything over 50C is worth worrying about.

 

[noxipoo]

sad somehow

 

[SSP]

I talked to the guy I bought it from and he suggested that I drop the AGP aperture size to 64MB and see if that helped any. The chip was supposed to be a guaranteed 950, but it's not stable enough to install or load Windows at that speed. I don't know that much about VIA boards, would that be a possible solution? I've only used boards with Intel or AMD chipsets till now.

Do your self a favor. Take the heat sink off, and re-apply the thermal paste. Judging by what he said about the AGP aperture size... I don't think he did a good job (I've seen this happen many many times).

 

[damac]

I have a retail 1ghz tbird @ 1250mhz at 1.775 on the msi proa2 board and after leaving the computer on all day restarting and going into the bios it says 44 C and that is with the stock heatsink, arctic silver, and a sunon after market fan. I had one of those little blow dryers on their that cooled it by 6 more but I couldn't stand the high pitch noise. funny thing is the one I got now isn't any louder than the other case fans but oh well.

I actually have never run any benchmarking program to see what its at during load or whatever. when I touch the heatsink I can feel some warmth. Im just assuming all is well though and I'm leaving my rig alone now.

can anybody recommend some urls to get some popular benching software?

 

[Oreo]

49C is an average temp for your CPU so I wouldn´t worry about it. The program is probably reading the temp wrong.

 

[Oreo]

49C is an average temp for your CPU so I wouldn´t worry about it. The program is probably reading the temp wrong.

 

[DABANSHEE]

&quot;I know the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius quite well, thank you . . . Temp reading screenshot

I live in the States; I think in Fahrenheit . . . the heatsink feels about 90 degrees Fahrenheit . . . comfortably warm but not so hot that you need to pull your fingers away.&quot;

Well Mr Xerox, isnt it obvious then that the program is getting things all mixed up, then (if your arn't) - at 90C water is virtually starting to boil, which means it would burn you, so its obvious the program is reporting the temp wrong.

 

[lumpyhed2]

Generally i would say 35-40c for Durons and 40-50c for T-birds

 

[A2KLAU]

That thing is too hot to handle! Why not go and get something called a Crytech Cooler... I think it is called Crytech, or something along those lines. It can produce a temp of -40C!!! Cool huh... But it will use about the same amount of power as a freezer and is rather bulky. Basically it is placed around the CPU and keeps things cool! You mite want to buy one of those...
Seriously you should go for something which will deal with hot conditions like a Hedghog or something heavy duty. The orb is not really suited to cooling OCed CPUs more suited for normal cooling.

SKY.

 

[A2KLAU]

This thread seems to have died abit! Lets get it back to life!

SKY.