Cooling Extreme Uncooling!

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  1. chiggyman

    chiggyman Banned

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    I am sorry if this is the wrong category but im hoping it is

    I have a spare pc, and it has an AMD 2400+ in, generic 400 watt PSU, 9200SE, 256mb ram, cd-rw, nuthing special.

    Its in a case with a sidewindow, has 4x 80mm fans running, 2 intake on the front, 2 outake, one on the back, one on the side window. There is a volcano 11 runnning on the CPU.

    Now even at full fan speed making the loudest noise ever, im gettin 55 degrees load on the cpu, and about 45 degrees case (motherboard readouts) and this is crazy, i have the same case, in a different colour, but with a 2800+ 2 optical drives, and a 9600 and i get about 48 degrees load running the lumpiest hunka allimnium uve eva seen. On the other system i cant even have it runnning at 133 FSB im having to run it at 100 FSB so that it stops overheating and restarting, what could be cuasing this madness came temperature :S. I just cant figure it out
     
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  2. Da_Rude_Baboon

    Da_Rude_Baboon What the?

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    incorrecty seated heatsink?
     
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  3. Heavytank2

    Heavytank2 What's a Dremel?

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    Over-voltage? Try a CMOS reset. You never know...
     
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  4. M0RPH3US

    M0RPH3US What's a Dremel?

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    did u use thermal paste on your heatsinks ???

    often gives a nice temp difference ... :thumb:
     
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  5. chiggyman

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    The heatsink is correctly set, it is not overvolted, ive reset the CMOS many times, im using this thermal grease stuff that came with the heatsink but even without it this is a solid copper heatsink blowing 80+ CFm onto it with a very noisy fan, not far off delta style, and it overheats even running at 1800+, not even the full 2400+ it should run at. ive seen the case temp hit 45 degrees yet there is plenty fans, and identical case to one im already using.
     
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  6. SeT

    SeT What's a Dremel?

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    what kind of heat sink? I've had solid copper sinks produce the same temps on a 2700+. It's not uncommon. Did you use a lot of the thermal paste? you really just want a very thin layer. Anything over the size of a BB is to much.
     
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  7. chiggyman

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    Well there is a very thin layer of thermal grease, but not much at all. What doesnt make sense if i have faster running hardware in an identical case, except with less case fans, and the other case has an alliminium generic heatsink rather than a Volcano 11. And yet the alliminium heatsink cools a 2800+ running at 3200+, and the copper volcano 11, struggles cooling the 2400+ running at 1800+. It just doesnt seem to make sense. I havent tried swapping heatsinks or CPU's over, but seems really strange.
     
    chiggyman, 2 Sep 2004
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