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Hi
I am running an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ on a K7S5A mobo. My cooler is a HHC-L61 HeatPipe, wich supports all Athlon XP CPU's up to 2400+ and higher. Though the average CPU temp is 59°C when my comp is idle. My mobo temp is 24°C. My core voltage is 1.74V and my aux voltage is 2.48V. Could anyone tell me why my CPU is running so hot, and how to fix this prob. Cuz my comp is becoming fairly unstable...
Thx in advance
who installed the heatsink? do you know for a fact that it was done correctly? what thermal material was used? (Pad, paste etc.)
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there's your problem, you should atleast use a thermal pad if not paste. I would suggest buying a silver type thermal paste and follow these instructions to the letter:
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm
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With no thermal compound on that thing, you are lucky it's even alive much less fairly unstable. Must be one helluva good cpu to heatsink fit.
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59C is not that high. My Duron 1.3Ghz run 65C at idle, 71C at full load. I have 3 extra case fan to ensure perfect airflow. My motherboard is at 30C full load, 28 idle. 59C is not that high for Athlon XP, their max temp is at 75C+. Funny thing for me is when I play games and I can touch the heatsink without burning my finger. It feel like in 45-55C, I dunno why my motherboard's reading so high. It's perfectly stable when motherboard reading at 71C, no crash, no blue screen, no nothing.
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I know its not that high, but i decreased the fsb to 100, instead of the normal 133... this makes the CPU run at about 400 MHz slower... the idle temp at an fsb of 133 is about 75° at idle... And that causes my comp to run kinda unstable (crashing every 10 minutes)
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I have an XP1700+ and with ambient room temps around 35C (95F summer) my CPU is at 34-36C (93.2F-96.8F)idle and 39-41C (102.2F-105.8F)running toast for 15 minutes. I am using artic silver thermal paste and a solid copper HSF.My HSF link: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50254543&pfp=SEARCH
Toast download:
http://www.geocities.com/btvillarin/Downloads/Toast.zip
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Oh! and I am running the K7S5A Pro PCB5.0 XP1700+ T-BRED bios 030110. link:
http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/bios/k7s5apro_030110.exe
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hehe i tried to run toast... bad thing... after 10 minutes the CPU temp hit 84°C and i shut it down because i didnt want to fry my comp.../me needs thermal paste BADLY
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you won't be laughing when you're shelling out $50-75 for a new CPU...DON'T run it without thermal paste! It's only $2 at Radio Shack..part # 276-1372 A
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Funny thing is, i have that comp for about a year now, it never had thermal paste, but just recently he began overheating... when i installed a new cooler...
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It had paste or a pad. Clean both surfaces and properly apply some paste. The 2 buck Radio Shack stuff will work fine. You'll likely see temps in the forties.
You are one lucky mutha. If I tried what you did I'd be catching the side window and heat sink as it blew off the board.
Sooner the better,
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my 1.13 athlon runs at bout 57 idel let alone whith a load on it i took my big dragon orb off cos it was just too noisy and usin a stardrd amd aprovd heat sink with compound and its fairly stable so altho u shod have thermal on your cpu the temp is not too high
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