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Temperatures seem Way to High for Normal Operation

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by 1st time modder, 7 Sep 2004.

  1. 1st time modder

    1st time modder What's a Dremel?

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    ok, just recently i bought a brand new Abit IS7 mobo from directron. I got it all up and running just fine, but now my temps for the cpu and graphics card seem a bit too high. Running a Northwood 2.0A GHZ at 107*F :worried: , on a coolermaster AERO, the strange thing is that the heatsink isnt even warm, before putting the heatsink on i applied some AS5. Could i have put on too much. Since I was told that a zalman vga cooler wounldn't fit because AGP slot was too close to the NB fan. So i took out of my closet an artic cooling VGA silencer. Since then i have noticed that artifacts appear once i go to 400GPU 340RAM on a radeon 9800pro, But before on my zalman i could get to 415/370 and have no artifacts running it 24/7 thanks to 4 fans off of 2 old P2 slot coolers. Right now i dont have it overclocked and the back of the card seems too hot right near where the GPU sits, could i have applied too much AS5 in this situation also, or too little, or is this heatsink just a piece of crap.
     
  2. RotoSequence

    RotoSequence Lazy Lurker

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    Hmmmm you probably did put on too much AS5, but then again, those heatsinks arent very good. Re-seat the heatsinks and see if that fixes things at all. As for the CPU heatsink though, its not as good, so temps are going to be higher. and 107* Fahrenheit isnt that bad. :/
     
  3. 1st time modder

    1st time modder What's a Dremel?

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    would a pretty cool heatsink be an indication of too much AS5
     
  4. Kameleon

    Kameleon is watching you...

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    A cold heatsink when your board is reporting hot is either an indication of poor contact (whether caused by bad mounting or too much/little thermal goop) or of crap sensors on the board - don't trust them by any means. 107°F (= 41°C for non-Americans) isn't worryingly hot anyway.
     

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