Not a big temp change

[Silent Assasin]

WTF....... I setup up my water cooling today with a new DD TDX cpu block on my a64 3200+ and a BIP2 rad. The fans I"m using are 100cfm on high. Using MCT-40 and used as5 for connection from block to cpu.... My temps only dropped like 3*C at idle, and are still sitting arou 38*C on idle...... Did I screw somethin up? Or should I wait for my AS5 to thicken (like 200 work hours or sumthin I think.....)

 

[arnemetis]

if its running at stock, you probabaly wont notice THAT big of a drop. a64's run nice and cool on their own, and also if stock, cool n quiet will be enabled making it run even cooler. you wont get the cpu much below ambient@idle. now where you would notice a difference is with load temps. still not that big of a deal vs stock, but throw some volts at the cpu and up the mhz...this is when you will see the difference. water cooling does an excellent job dissipating heat, not so good at freezing an idle cpu :edit: thought you said 28c...hmm. let the arctic silver settle. still, the largest improvement will be at load.

 

[Teecee]

Yeah check the arctic silver. I have a 3700+ @ 2.75ghz with that new swiftech APEX kit and my idle temp is 28C.

 

[Bio-Hazard]

28c seems about universal with the A64 on DFI boards at idle...............

 

[Silent Assasin]

but i'm running 38*C-40*C, not 28*. On a chaintech mobo...... I just got done with a game of BF2 and I peaked around 53*C. These are pretty much the exact same temps I was getting with air.....

 

[plywood99]

You can't much pay attention to mobo temps. Stability is where it's at. And you will only find this out through some hardcore overclocking....

My idle temp on my abit board is 42*c. The exact same setup on my MSI board read 23*c. 19*c difference just in changing mobo's.

Onboard temp monitoring sucks hardcore, it is only good for safety precautions, aka setting up bios to shut down system.

 

[Silent Assasin]

so what your trying to say is that it might be the way my mobo is reading the temps????

I mean, even if it was just the mobo, I still should of noticed a temp change from air to water.....

 

[plywood99]

so what your trying to say is that it might be the way my mobo is reading the temps????

I mean, even if it was just the mobo, I still should of noticed a temp change from air to water.....

Not allways, especially on A64's. They are cool running cpu's, and you might not notice a difference at stock. As was mentioned before, it's when you clock'em and up the voltage that temps will rise, and you'll see the advantage of water over air.