My first abit board-p4 temp question

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I read that abit's report the temps higher than other boards.

I have a 3.0c with an abit ic7 board with the 875p chipset on it. I use a 900u thermalright heatsink (they heavy mofo's, all copper) and an 80mm fan on top.

After some gaming in CoD and Neverwinter nights, I will get temps of 52c. Seems pretty freakin high, even with Arctic silver. Idle temps will be 45c. No overclocking.

I don't even think my amd's got temps that high after gaming. So are my temps really 42c, and 35c idle? Is that what an asus would report?

I was thinking my 80mm fan is not blowing air directly through my heatsink, so I might switch back to my louder higher pitched 60mm fan.

Also when I touch the heatsink it is warm, barely even hot to the touch after 3 solid hours of nwn. So it can't be that hot, when I touched the heatsink on my amd (the amd used an 800sku from thermalright) that was pretty dang hot.

I was also thinking of ocing it to about 3.4, should that be pretty safe? I got 2 case fans in the back, one on the side, and one in the front cooling the hd's.
 
Yeah all abit p4 boards do it, if you double check with a probe attached to the heat spreader youll get 7 to 10 degrees C lower temps ! As to Asus temps, i heard they are even more bogus ;P

Another thing to closely watch is the cpu voltage (ah, and ddr ! ) Compare what you have set in the soft menu with what you get after reboot in pc health. IC7 for example is some 0.5V subvolted. I have a 2.6@3.25 set up with 1.6V, and it actually gets 1.55-1.57. I have 2.7 V for DDR and it gets 2.66V
 
Well i have a 2.6C overclocked to 3.2Ghz and it runs under 40C even while gaming. the highest it has gone is 38C and that was while playing the campaign in Halo. i even tested it while running a UT2004 server with 30 bots and recording video using Fraps at the same time and it never goes over 40C. i am running the asus P4C800-E Deluxe so i doubt that your temps are as high as your mobo is putting them out to be. but i could be wrong. :)
 
The Abit boards tend to read higher than other board makers. As long as you don't have stability problems, you are fine.
 
dirtyape, even with that bad ass rad, 38 in full loadsounds like bogus, unless your room is freezing cold. From what Ive read and also heard from asus owners, the temps are really a mess, mostly because the idle/load difference is too small and the load too low. Just the other day i was reading a HSF review, that guy was reading only a 5 degree difference between idle and load using guess what an Asus board. Hilareous.
 
well my room isnt all that cold and i am using the sp-94 with the smart fan 2 combo so there is a crap load of air flow over that heatsink...i dont think i will have any probs with cooling and doubt that my cpu could be running much hotter though. but i could be wrong and i hope to God im not :D
 
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