Well, summer approaches here in Texas and temps are increasing quickly. I built my system back in November, so I had nice ambient temps to work with. Overclocking went pretty easily without worrying about temps.
Now, when playing games, my CPU temp rises to about 53C and I have noticed a spontaneous reboot or two-- most likely due to instability. I have my vcore set as high as I am willing to, and do not notice any other instabilities (Prime runs well for a long time but still errors out after a while, but, again, stable enough for me until these reboots that I assume are temp related).
Ambient room temp is around 79F at the moment, but thats only going to go up a little more as summer sets in. With that room temp, and the fact that my system sits under a desk with little air flow, I'm getting case temps around 35C (a good 15F higher than ambient). Idle CPU sits at 50C. Load goes to 53C. That may seem fine on the surface, but my mobo is an Epox 8k5a2 and measures low.
My system:
Athlon XP 1600+ oc'ed to 166fsb x10.5 (lowering back to 133 seems to fix the reboots since temps are a good 5-6C lower without oc'ing)
SK7 with a YS-tech adjustable (kept on max) with AS3
4 case fans... mix of vantec stealth and antec case fans
So, my long-winded question is... what is the best thing for me to do to lower my temps? Would a higher cfm fan on the cpu be better (such as the TT smart fan2 at 75cfm)? Or is it better to replace those 4 somewhat low cfm case fans with a couple more ys techs at the max to try to lower the case temp? Or should I just forget about oc'ing in the summer altogether.... naw. I'm leaning toward trying to lower the case temp by using ys techs instead of the generic case fans and see if that will, in turn, lower the cpu when oc'ed.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
deadseasquirrel
Now, when playing games, my CPU temp rises to about 53C and I have noticed a spontaneous reboot or two-- most likely due to instability. I have my vcore set as high as I am willing to, and do not notice any other instabilities (Prime runs well for a long time but still errors out after a while, but, again, stable enough for me until these reboots that I assume are temp related).
Ambient room temp is around 79F at the moment, but thats only going to go up a little more as summer sets in. With that room temp, and the fact that my system sits under a desk with little air flow, I'm getting case temps around 35C (a good 15F higher than ambient). Idle CPU sits at 50C. Load goes to 53C. That may seem fine on the surface, but my mobo is an Epox 8k5a2 and measures low.
My system:
Athlon XP 1600+ oc'ed to 166fsb x10.5 (lowering back to 133 seems to fix the reboots since temps are a good 5-6C lower without oc'ing)
SK7 with a YS-tech adjustable (kept on max) with AS3
4 case fans... mix of vantec stealth and antec case fans
So, my long-winded question is... what is the best thing for me to do to lower my temps? Would a higher cfm fan on the cpu be better (such as the TT smart fan2 at 75cfm)? Or is it better to replace those 4 somewhat low cfm case fans with a couple more ys techs at the max to try to lower the case temp? Or should I just forget about oc'ing in the summer altogether.... naw. I'm leaning toward trying to lower the case temp by using ys techs instead of the generic case fans and see if that will, in turn, lower the cpu when oc'ed.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
deadseasquirrel
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