Re: prescott capable Socket-478 MB's
- From: "Michael Hawes" <michael.hawes1remove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:03:31 -0000
"Mike Webb" <jmichaelwebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does the heat sink feel like 70C? If not, either sensor reading is
Dave;
The original cooler that I chose for this system was the Aero Cool
Extreme , which is a solid copper piece with an 80 MM fan. It appeared
to be doing the job, but for the sake of troubleshooting I replaced it
with a TR2 M12 SE(P4) from Thermaltake. Both of these coolers are (I
believe) quality pieces, both have full copper Heatsinks. I took care
to clean the mating surfaces before re-installing the new HS, and
applying new heatsink compound. After the change, the basline temp was
the same.
AeroCool: http://www.aerocool.us/p-cooler/extreme/extreme.htm
TR2: http://www.tr2tt.com/products/coolers/m12se/m12se.htm
Mike
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:30:38 GMT, "Dave" <noway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Mike Webb" <jmichaelwebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I put together a P4 3.2 system about a year ago, and have had
intermittent problems with cooling, if I do any serious
computing...(i.e. Rendering a Video)...I'm not a gamer so I seldom
have that kind of a load on the system, but when I start up something
like Nero Recode to re code some Video files I have, the PWM Temp gets
to be quite high (70-80 C) and I abort it.
Research seems to indicate that my ABIT AI7 MB, although offering
"Prescott Support", does not really have very robust support for the
Power hungry Prescott. Has anyone had any experience wait a Socket 478
Prescott capable Motherboard, they would care to recommend????
A good article on the problem I am Seeing is located at:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1179/
(I am not affiliated wit that WEB Site, just providing a pointer to so
info on the subject of my post)
Thanks for your time.
Mike
The problem is not the motherboard, it is your CPU cooler. Either it's
improperly installed (most likely) or it is not compatible with your
particular CPU. I've built two systems around the prescott 3.0E. One is
my
wife's system. That CPU has never hit 40C. Never. But it's not used for
anything heavy. The OTHER one is my nephews. It is in an antec aria
case,
which has VERY POOR airflow. He's a hardcore gamer. After many hours of
gaming, we've never seen a CPU temp higher than 45C. My wife's system has
a
Intel-supplied (OEM) cooler, which is crap, to put it bluntly. For the
other system, we used an all-copper cooler with an 8CM fan on it. I don't
remember who makes it, but it was cheap. The only real advantage of it is
that it was all copper, as opposed to a copper base and aluminum fins.
Still, If a prescott 3.0E can run at 45C or lower in an antec aria case
under heavy load for hours, there is NO WAY you should ever get above
about
50C, no matter how hard you push that CPU. In fact, I'd think there was
something wrong with your cooler if you hit 45C too easily.
Plus, if your motherboard was the problem, your system wouldn't run long
enough to see a 70C reading on CPU temp. I'd recommend you try the
following, after carefully cleaning off all the thermal paste of that CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835106606
If that doesn't reduce the temperature significantly, I'd think that there
is something wrong with your temperature monitor. At 70 or 80C, you
should
have massive instability problems. -Dave
faulty, or the heatsink is NOT making good contact with the CPU. Have you
updated the BIOS? Try Speedfan. I have seen an ABIT motherboard give a
reading of 74C with a cool heatsink. Speedfan lets you configure the type of
sensor. Thermistor gave same reading as BIOS, Diode gave a more believable
reading.
Mike.
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