Why are my temps so high?

[ericboo]

Last night I swapped out the fan off my FOP38 because it was also driving me nuts. I was running at about 43C under light load, and put a Panaflo 60mm L series and it runs about 46-47C. What gives with that? I see people running in the low 30's. I put a Blue Orb on that came with the cpu to see what that would do, and it would idle at 50C.

I used Artic SilverII, and was very careful to lay the heatsink flat while installing. I used the jumpers to lower the voltage to 1.675 because it was showing around 1.77.

I have an Enlight 7237 case with a fan in the front and back of the case, and am running my Athlon 800 at 900.

 

[Tschaft]

There could be a number of things, if you are sure the heatsink/fan is on there good, and you got the artic silver on there right, then I dont know. Try some software cooling, it cooled down my p3 by about 7c. CpuIdle. RAin is a good program too.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

ericboo,

can you give us some details? Like MB, cpu type, mb bios version, mb/case temp?

In general, yoru temps are not too high. A lot of the 30C range temps you see are from motherboards that radically under-read cpu temps.


Mike

 

[ericboo]

Mikewarrior,

Here is my setup. Asus A7V, T'bird 800, 1006 bios, Enlight 7237 with fan in front pulling air in, and fan in rear expelling. It is an FOP38 with a Panaflo 60mm fan instead of that noisemaker.

Looking around the AMD site, I think I found info that states the maximum temps are 90C, which I would assume is beyond what we should be reading. I know some boards misread temps, and I know when I opened it up and touched the heatsink, it was warm and not hot.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ericboo]

I forgot, but the mobo temps are quite normal. Maybe I will chalk it up to inaccurate readings because nothing seems to be wrong, even at 950. I will also try and lower the Vcore.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

remember that A7V's on the highest "reading" temps of any socket-a board, provided you have a post 1004 bios.

And your temps are also excellent for an a7v. Most a7v "reads" are in the 50-60C range.



Mike