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Help with me temps

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intercollector

Gawd
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Hi,

I'm having some serious temp problems. Here are the specs:

A64 3000+ newcastle C0
DFI Lanparty 250Gb
1GB Pc3200 ram
Zalman 7000A-Cu

For cooling setup, I have an antec case with an 80mm side fan with an air duct blowing cold air directly on the Zalman. For case fans, I have 1 front 80mm fan and 1 120mm exhaust fan out the back.

At stock speeds I get 42c CPU temp (35c case) at idle. Already they seem a bit high. Under load it jumps to about 49c and 37c.

I can overclock to 2550mhz (255HTT, 3/4 ratio....ya ya, I know my ram sucks)

I get pretty sweet scores in SuperPi: 36s for 1M
But my temps jump up to 42c case and 60c+ CPU under load.

I was hoping the Zalman could do I ton better than this. I have the Zalman fan running at full tilt.

Currently I have it running at 225HTT, with ratio at 1:1. Seems to be a pretty good performance with decent enough temps to have it run at this all the time. But I was hoping that getting the Zalman would let me run 250HTT with temps around 45-50c under load, as is the case with other people with similar setups.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
from what i hear, the Zalman is not a "high-performance" cooler, its just very quiet...but also, from what i hear, the A64's don't overclock very high...other than that, i'm sorry, but i can't help...
 
i had the A64 on stock cooling and while surfing the net and stuff it would stay around 47c

now that i got my water cooling almost finished it runs at about 25c. Running at the 47 idol and im not sure what it was load didnt seen to hurt it at all though.
 
I am also having a temperature problem. My CPU will not go below 60 degrees Celcius upon boot up. Mind you, this is a brand new install. No overclocking has been performed here.


A64 3200+ newcastle C0 512 L2
DFI Lanparty 250Gb
1GB Pc3200 ram
XP-90 Heatsink

I talked to a few friends over the weekend, and have been told to flash bios, etc. Honestly, I think that there is something more to this than just the bios config. I removed the Arctic Silver that had been placed between the heatsink and cpu, and replaced with an extremely thin layer. After boot up, I checked the heatsink by hand, to see if the cpu was distributing heat. It is, so I know that the two are working properly, or at least what I see as proper.

The CPU Temp did reach 72 Degrees Celcius and shut down. An obvious action.

The cooling in my case is good, I have a 120mm fan blowing inward from the front of the case, an 80mm on top of the heatsink blowing towards the cpu, and an 80mm blowing into the case from the window.

Any thoughts?
 
to the post starter:
Did you follow the directions for your thermal pate word-for-word? too much paste can cause a heat buildup instead of a nice even transfer.

To the second poster:
Since you already did the reapp of the paste:
do you have any exhaust fans? if you dont have a near equal set up (you have 2 ins and 0 outs it seems?) your just re-circulating the same hot air. if your case temperatures are much above ambient then thats probabley part if not most of your problem. also the room temp in general could be to warm, remeber heat sinks can only cool relative to the air thats passing over them. if the airs already 100F, your not gonna get much cooling :(
 
Those temps aren't that high actually, but it can be lower. Don't worry so much if you can't get it lower because temp readings can be wrong.

Update ur bios.
 
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