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Horrible Fan?

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MitchEvious

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I have an intel 530 (Not 530J) with the fan that came with it. I read that pinless processors like this can run pretty hot, but i'm idling at 66 degrees celcius. Think it's the fan that I have on top of the processor? or is something else wrong? The case itself is only 32 celc.
 
It has nothing to do with being pinless. The Prescott cores are simply really hot. The fan that comes with the Pentium 4 LGA775 processors isn't that great. It's adequate for stock speeds, but not much beyond that.

I also found that on mine it read about 10 degrees higher, then it cooled down permanantly by ten degrees. It might have been due to a break in period for the TIM that's on the bottom of the heatsink.

Mines about 56C idle and 66C under full load. BTW what motherboard are you using? If it's an Abit board, expect it to read about 10C too high. Abit's always read about 10 degrees high and Asus reads 10 degrees to low.

Although Prescott's do get really hot, bear in mind that they are designed to get that hot. It won't hurt it so long as it's operating in it's normal heat range. Yours should be about like mine. 50ish C idle and 60ish under full load.
 
I am actually running an Intel brand board (I think foxconn is the one who made a lot of the parts for them, because half the parts say foxconn on them =P), but it's an Intel BOX915GAGL board.
 
Those temperatures are DEFINATELY too high. Make sure your heatsink is mounted properly, and clean out any dust. Mine idles 20C lower than yours :rolleyes:
 
Figured it out, the thermal compound that was on the heatsink when I got it SUCKED. It didn't smear at ALL over the processor, replaced it and it's idling at 43.
 
MitchEvious said:
Figured it out, the thermal compound that was on the heatsink when I got it SUCKED. It didn't smear at ALL over the processor, replaced it and it's idling at 43.
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I had the same problem with the stock thermal material when I first got my Northwood 2.8c. Only the corners of the material even melted at all. As a result, my 2.8c ran hot enough to destabilize Windows, especially under load. I first replaced the material with thermal grease, and it worked better. Since then, I upgraded to a Zalman CNPS-7000A-AlCu HSF with Arctic Silver 5, which delivers a further improvement in cooling performance.
 
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