Trouble taming new 4800+ cpu with Zalman 9500

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tejas gordo

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Originally posted by: allies
My CNPS-9500 never gets above 55 C

If that's running dual prime95 with the 9500 in silent mode, then I envy you and question my own masculinity, if not that of my 9500.
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Originally posted by: Bobthelost
If you're not afraid of a little modding there is another option...

Take 9500, remove the fan from it, throw fan away. Contrive a mount for a 120mm fan next to the 9500's cooling fins, then run that @ whatever speed you think is appropriate. You could try doing this with a 120mm fan and leaving the stock one in place for now, see how that performs.

Of course that'd be a pain in the arse every time you go into the case and if you want to move it.

Or you could try some ducting, if you've got a side intake then a bit of flexible tubing might let you duct cool air to the intake side of the 9500.

That may be my next project if I find Q-fan revving up the 9500 too much. So far, however, it's behaving. Not much stresses a cpu like dual prime95, and I've got enough case flow to handle the hot air created by my vid card when gaming. I thought about modding the 9500 by mounting a 120mm in place of the stock fan, but that would require extending the base of the HS where the fan mounts, and I'm not sure there's enough room between the 9500 and the ram on my a8n-sli deluxe mobo. Your suggestion would be simpler than that. I may try zip tying a 120mm fan to the 9500 as a quick and dirty experiment in the future.
 

JSFLY

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You know, there might be a problem with the cpu itself. An AMD cpu should NOT be getting 60C load with the stock cooler and no overclocking. I would attempt and rma with AMD for a new CPU.
 

One43637

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Originally posted by: allies
My CNPS-9500 never gets above 55 C


that's too hot for me. i'm getting annoyed that mine is at 44C. doesn't leave much room to OC it, imo.
 

liquid51

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Originally posted by: One43637
Originally posted by: allies
My CNPS-9500 never gets above 55 C


that's too hot for me. i'm getting annoyed that mine is at 44C. doesn't leave much room to OC it, imo.

yes, I agree. My 4800 coupled with the 9500 sees idle temps around 30-31 C, load around 44-45 C, cool'n'quiet disabled. System temps around the same with an a8n32-sli. Thats with 2 stock 120mm fans in a lian li. My mobo does place the proc. below the blistering 7800GTX 512 and the PSU is in a separate compartment, so I'm sure that helps a bit.

I'd double check and triple check your dust, airflow, 9500 base, and AS5. Oh, ambient temps too. My house is almost always pretty cool. My buddy brought his setup over and saw a drop in temp of almost 5 C (pretty warm at his place =P ). Check that too. If you know that you've done everything right, contact AMD. Although, they're probably just going to have you send it in for an amd-stress testing. If it passes, you get it back. g-luck
 

allies

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Originally posted by: One43637
Originally posted by: allies
My CNPS-9500 never gets above 55 C


that's too hot for me. i'm getting annoyed that mine is at 44C. doesn't leave much room to OC it, imo.


Never gets over 55 is being very very lenient. Even when it's 80+ degrees out (I'm in dorm without air conditioning) max temp is 50-51. When it's cooler out, it doesn't go past 46-48. This is at 2.6 ghz, an overclock I'm content with.