Hi, well i bought a Thermaltake volcano 9 smart and silent HSF. I installed it into my computer with only minimal booting equipment (M/B, PSU, Video card) I turned on the system and went into the BIOS and it read 57C! My original AMD stock cooling kept it at (full load) 53C. But this is at idle and in the BIOS.

I don't know if i put the thermal grease on wrong or what, but i bought this so i could overclock better.

Please help with my situation.

Dabiel

PS I am only using the thermal grease that camne with the HSF and i didn't get any Artic silver III or anything. Thanks for your time

have you got the cpu cooler on the right way round with the reccess in the heatsink to the raised part on the cpu socket i got my X-Dream on wrong way and mine hit 70 degrees celcius :S so make sure ya got it on way round n thats only thing i can think of so hope this helps ya with ya problem.

No, i am sure that it is on the right way, it can only go on way. If i try to put it on the other way around, it will hit the capacitors.

I tried to putting a new lot of thermal grease on but i still get very high temps, i'm now hitting 70C in windows.

Daniel

i tryied the volcano 9 on my pc yesterday and my temp went up to 53 on start up. normally at about 44 or 45 with the stock amd heatsink.

they suck!!!!

Yeah, i have to agree that the volcano 9 is not great. I have one too with artic silver 3 on my Athlon 2000+ (palomino) and i get temps of 54C idle in windows and over 65C playing games.

I have a Volcano 9 to and I mounted a PCtoys tornando fan blowing on the chip, memory and video card using artic silver III temps are 36c idle and no more than 45c-50c loaded

2400XP 266fb @ 2.16 333fb x 12
768 PC2100 @ 333FB
FX5200 @ 290c / 450mem