On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:29:17 -0500
Jesse Marlin
How cool? I have Athlon XP 1800+ on a Gigabyte GA-7VTXE MB and the bios reports it at around 54 degrees celsius. I looked up in the AMD online manual and it claims the max is 90 degrees celcius. I took a lot of precautions when building it, and thought it would be running cooler. One part that worries me is that I can actually touch the heatsink. What kinda of temp are you reading on yours?
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That is comfortable for this CPU. In "another O/S" <grimace> (have to get a driver for my sensor chip), in the same case (AOpen full tower with the recommended Coolmaster heatsink on each CPU and extraction fan for the hdd's) my XP 1600+ peaks at about 51 degrees C, my T-Bird 1.2G was peaking at 62 degrees C. I am trying to get hold of some Arctic Silver II thermal compound, according to tests that I have seen, this alone should decrease the temp by 4 or 5 degress C. High performance cooler units are difficult to get hold of here - Third World country stuff, so I have to try other things?! Have fun with your new system. *** If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional and AMD Athlon XP1600+ Registered Linux User Lourens Steenkamp Republic of South Africa