Athlon 3500 speed

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Name: doctorbill
Date: July 19, 2006 at 16:25:43 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed
OS: Win2K
CPU/Ram: athlon xp 3500
Model/Manufacturer: amd

Comment:

#1 I have an athlon xp 3500 that seems to be running hot. If ambient temp reads 35C CPU at idle is 51C. This is with an XP120 heat sink with a 120mm 147cft/min fan. Is it suppose to be that hot? #2When I run a windows programs that pushes the utilization to 100% temp goes up 2-3 degrees and frequency reads 1000MHZ (using cpucool). BUT when I run my research program (turbo pascal) I hit 62C and 2200Mhz. Is there any way to cool things down or force the clock speed to stay at 1000Mhz? Thanks.

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Response Number 1

Name: TMP-Man
Date: July 19, 2006 at 16:36:01 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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"#1 I have an athlon xp 3500 that seems to be running hot."
1. "ambient temp reads 35C" = either insufficent air flow caused dirty fans/heatsinks or incorrectly setup fans or your room temperature is too hot...
2. "This is with an XP120 heat sink with a 120mm 147cft/min fan" = did you installed it correct? Did you forget to apply thermalpaste?
3. " hit 62C and 2200Mhz. Is there any way to cool things down or force the clock speed to stay at 1000Mhz? " = Enable cool-n-quiet in the BIOS...
TMP-Man
Asus P5P800-SE
P4 506 @ 4200Mhz 1.45v
Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5
1GB Corsair 2-3-3-5 DDR400
120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD
MSI 6600GT AGP 550/1150

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Response Number 2

Name: doctorbill
Date: July 20, 2006 at 10:18:18 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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1 fans/filters clean and properly set up, room is 80-85F other computers read same ambient. (actually system temp)
2 of course, I've been building machines since the 80's! Arctic silver 5
3. only bios settings for C&Q are auto and disabled. Set to auto
I'm running in a thermaltake Tsunami dream. My other machine (same case) with a stock heat sink on a 3400 runs 3C BELOW system on idle and 6C above when running the research program. That's why this one has me confused.

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Response Number 3

Name: J-Micro
Date: July 21, 2006 at 08:55:10 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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Have you tried removing the heatsink/fan, rebuffing the cpu and heatsink surfaces, and
reapplying the Ninja? When you applied the thermal paste, did you use a tiny grain and smooth it over the CPU?
Abit NF8
Sempron64 3100+ - 2.6GHZ
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
512 MB PC 3200 Ram
Radeon 9550 @ 460/560

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Response Number 4

Name: doctorbill
Date: July 21, 2006 at 16:49:34 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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Thanks. I'll try that, but I found in another forum that my particular version of the chip is infamous for running very hot. I forget the exact name at the moment, but it starts with C and is 130 architecture. The 90 version apparents runs much cooler. So I guess the ultimate solution is to buy a new cpu. Ouch!

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Response Number 5

Name: GX1 Man
Date: July 22, 2006 at 21:50:46 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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Was micron the word you were searching for?

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Response Number 6

Name: doctorbill
Date: July 25, 2006 at 07:58:16 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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I assumed everyone here would know what I was talking about.

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Response Number 7

Name: GX1 Man
Date: July 25, 2006 at 08:33:50 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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" I forget the exact name at the moment, but it starts with C and is 130 architecture."
Apparently not everyone.

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Response Number 8

Name: doctorbill
Date: August 9, 2006 at 18:08:47 Pacific
Subject: Athlon 3500 speed

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Okay guys, despite the sarcasm, I installed a 90 MICRON 3800+ venice with the huge xp120 heat sink and arctic silver 5. Note AS5 has had no time to cure yet. With Quiet and Cool on system temp at idle was 40C (Celsius :)) and CPU was 27!!!. With Q&C disabled (had to, BOINC doesn't seem to push the chip hard enough) running at 100%, system=42C CPU=37C. All I can say is wow!!!The XP is probably overkill, but since I had it. Also I rebuufed the sink as per J-Micro although that was probably gilding the lilly.

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