Hello All, Well I am an Athlon master, I've been over clocking and modifying Athlons for a very long time, and I have about 5 box's running Athlon processors... Now they all run relatively hot about 52@idle and 62@Full it the normal temp range for me. but there is an outliner in my ranks... it's an MSI Board, K7T Turbo-R Limited Edition, there is nothing special about this board the only thing that is different is award bios and some more options you can mess with, and this really cool red pcb board. And that sucker runs at 62@idle and 75@full, and that it way too high for some ppl, but so far it's the most stable athlon board Ive seen, and it works with sblive, something that abit and asus have problems with, I really don't trust abit now... cause it melted on me, I had this abit KA7-100, that just melted on me... literally... the capacitors blew off... it was 750 Classic Athlon @ 925, with a good peltier. It was my test board and my bios mess around board.... Now back to my point every kind of board shows different kind of temperatures... Here are my Test Boards..... Abit KT7E-Raid MSI K7T Turbo-R Limited 1.2 Ghz (266) Boxed 1.2 Ghz (266) Boxed TNT2 M64 32 MB TNT2 M64 32 MB Sblive Mp3+ Sblive Mp3+ 20.4 Gig Maxtor 20.4 Gig Maxtor Intel Pro NIC 3com 3c905c-TX NIC Win2k & SuSE Linux 6.4 Win2k & SusE Linux 6.4 Stock Athlon Fan Stock Athlon Fan Win2k 53 @ Idle Win2k 62 @ Idle Linux 57 @ Idle Linux 65 @ Idle Win2k 62 @ full win2k 75 @ full Linux 70 @ full Linux 76 @ full So as you can see there is a difference between the temps of these motherboards, we all can see that the MSi Runs very hot... I think it's due to the core voltage on default it being a litle too high... now I've used the bios to monitor the temps and the digitaldoc 5 tool to monitor the heatsink temps... I think MSi runs hotter, or seems to run hotter, because the cpu temp probe is touching the underside of the cpu in the Zif socket... here is the technical drawing of it in text. ;) ####################### ####################### <- Fan %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% <- Heatsink %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% %% ^^%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% <- Bottom of Heatsink *******^^^^^^^^******** <- Copper Shim and Core with Copper Goop $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ <- CPU Boad @!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ <- Zif Socket and Heat Sensor It's touching CPU On the abit and almost every other board the heat sensor is not touching the back of the cpu, and thus kinda measures the ambient temp of the air, and not the actual cpu. It would be really cool if AMD finally got around to putting heat sensors inside the cpu like Intel Does... sure would make my job more fun... and accurate. So like I said your Athlon is not hot until it's around 85 Celsius, and then I would think about getting a new mobo or a better HSF... If you think your cpu runs too hot, I would suggest lovering your core temp and getting some better HSF and if that does not help and you are not a faint hearted person you can try using a peltier to cool it down, I would suggest to get an alpha cooler for your amd... and if that does not cool you... well then peltier all the way... and maybe a delta fan on that HSF... but it might be your case... poor ventilation is the key to all heat problems with athlons... If you have any questions please direct them to me via email and phone or voice.... I can also be found on rshakin @ toc.oscar.aol.com or as many ppl refer it to as aim... I wish you luck with your board and may it stay stable for a long time... long live Athlons --Roman PS: Yeah I know I do have too much time on my hands... On Tue, Aug 14, 2001, Dave Smith wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:29:05PM +0000, sienix@crosswinds.net wrote:
Thanks for all the replies.
I checked all the hardware, the Fans are working, there's enough thermal paste applied... I just don't get that windows keeps my CPU cooler (about 10°) (even when idle)..
I've tried recompiling the kernel with ACPI support, and DO_CPU_IDLE Calls, no result...
I just don't get it...:-(
Do you see a process using up all of your remaining CPU, called kapmd or kidled or something like that?
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