Hi haven’t posted for some time but am about to upgrade. My current system was built with help of this site and consists of an Antec SLK3700AMB case which I successfully modded to make it quieter following advice from this site. The cpu is a Pentium P4 2.8ghz with a Zalman CNPS7000A heatsink cooler,...

I have a 3700AMb with a P4 2.8C and Albatron MB. I am not sure where the MB measures the case temp but with an ambient of 23 -24C I have either 35 or 37C. Reason I am not sure is that there are 3 temps monitored, the CPU is about 43C idle. I have one no name fan in the rear which runs at just above ...

Mike - a very good resource and greatly appreciated. Not sure if this is the right forum but is there a definitive guide to acceptable temperatures and as importantly how these are measured. If not would it be possible to have a guide to measuring temps - both cpu and case both by inbuilt mobo senso...

. When you change the CPU cooler (assuming you have a cooler the basicly stirs around the air in the chassi) you expect your chassi temp to remain unchanged . At this point you should step back and wonder why chassi temp changed drasticly when you did not expect it to. I suspect that the problem is...

Lovin my Ions as well. I leave mine on the slow fan setting and it seems to be more than adequate to remove the heat from the psu (medium is not much noisier either). Practically inaudible for my ears at least! I often have 2 computers running at same time and after modding my old no name computer ...

So under load your chassi temps drops 17*C when you change the CPU cooler? It doesn't make any sense at all. Also under load your Intel CPU delta temp (67-54) is 13*C and with Zalman you got (54-37) 17*C. So, according to your numbers the Zalman performs 4*C worse than the stock Intel cooler. I thi...

At an ambient temp today of 32c and case temp of 38c it is idling at 47-49c and 61c under load (Zalman alcu at 12v) any ideas? these temps are about 1c cooler at idle and 1c hotter at load than the stock cooler without the scream. I have just run some comparitive tests with my P4 2.8C also with Zal...

I did some research, and there is a potential conflict when running two monitoring programs using on the WinBond chipset. I looked specifically at the WinBond W83627HF. I have not had a conflict yet running Fanspeed and Speedfan. I do not have Speedfan controlling the fans This thread http://www.li...

I am running both Speedfan and Fanspeed in win2k with no problems

I like the GUI in Fanspeed and I find the control of the fanspeeds better than Speedfan as it allows a progressive increase/decrease rather than the more abrubt change in Speedfan

I use one and I have to stick my ear about 6" (150mm) from it to hear it. It makes my Zalman 7000 seem like a boing 707. Having said that it also does not seem to punch out much heat. I leave mine on Auto. Another good reason for geting it was the AC outlet which allows me to plug a power board in t...

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Fanspeed does not report actual rpm but a number between 0 - 255 so I started SpeedFan and they seem to coexist OK (unlike MBM and Speedfan). I do not let SpeedFan control the fans just Fanspeed. I can now see the fan rpm and graphs of temps.

i use a simple luddite method of figuring out if the CPU is running too hot: touch the heatsink. if it's so hot that it's painful to touch, it's probably over 55'C and you should be mildly concerned My P42.8C reports about 40 idle and 50- 52 under load (cpuburn and about 2 -3c higher OC to 3.2) whi...

ChrisH wrote:What size grommets did you use? How big are the new holes?

Very small ones - they are from a servo from model RC gear.

Have been running SpeedFan to control my fans and liked how it could control the speeds as opposed to manually turning knobs on my Zalman MFC1 (which is now on another machine). However what I did not like, or maybe was unable to work how to do it, was to continuously adjust the dpeeds to maintain a...

I decided to try and quiet my 7000 AlCu and being lazy I drilled out the fan mount holes in the bracket slightly and put in rubber grommets so that the fan assembly is decoupled and clear of the bracket. It is about 1-1.5mm higher than the bracket. It is now significantly quieter and only took me ab...

I decided to try and quiet my 7000 AlCu and being lazy I drilled out the fan mount holes in the bracket slightly and put in rubber grommets so that the fan assembly is decoupled and clear of the bracket. It is about 1-1.5mm higher than the bracket. It is now significantly quieter and only took me ab...

I had a similar problem when I installed MBM after installing speedfan. MBM worked fine but speedfan did not. Removed speedfan and MBM and did a registry clean and reinstalled speedfan and it works fine. Seems that the 2 are not compatible - well in my case anyway

I have a 2.8C and it runs up to 56C under CPUBurn with an ambient of 22C. Trouble is do not know how reliable these temp readings really are but I suspect they are more accurate than my other machine, XP2200, which reports about the same temps - but I am sure that one is reading low by at least 5C H...

I have the H model evercool and have it and the cpu fan controlled by SpeedFan. It stalls at 20% but will run at 25% but it needs 50% to kick start it, I do not know how accurate these reportings are. Its reasonably quiet at 25% and zero noise at 20%! he loudest noise is the Zalman. FWIW the Zalman ...

Saw a review of a controller that may be interesting, has anyone seen or had any experience with one. The link below is to a review of it

It is called SST Eudemon by http://www.silverstonetek.com/

http://www.creativemods.com/content.php?review.75

acj wrote: My temps after running CPU burn for an hour are:

46/38/42

Idle temps are

26/29/28 (perhaps lower)

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What is the ambient temp and how do read the CPU temps?

Is there any easy way to lower the voltage of a fan controller.

Seems most have a lowest voltage of 7V, or the ones that I may be interested in have, and I want to be able to go to less than 5V.

Here in Australia you can buy a 3700AMB without PSU - which is what I did as I had a quiet one already. It was also very good value at A$70 whereas the Sonata sells for about A$200

Think I may be a bit optimistic but does anyone know of a fan controller that has at least 3 temp readouts and have a lowest voltage of say 5v for 2 fans minimum? Most of the ones I have seen reviewed eg the superflower have only a min of 7v as the lowest setting. Is there way to further adjust, eas...

My AMB has does not have a restrictive front grille - it seems to be similar to the BQE -as I mentioned previously the front webs/flanges are only about 1mm wide and the rear obes were about 2.5mm wide. I have even tried with a 120 fan blowing into the case from this position but it made no signific...

Thanks Ralf I have just positioned a sensor which is taped to the us of the PSU and hanging vertically so that it is approx 1", 25mm, from the cl of zalman fan and also in line with the cl evercool exhaust. It is currently reading approx 29.5C with the ambient of approx 26.5C (positioned in the open...

I am reasonably happy with the noise aspect of my setup which is a an Albatron PX865PE mb, Zalman 7000 AlCu, 2.8 P4C with an Evercool 120mm alum exhaust fan (the H model) and no intake fan in a 3700AMB case. Also have a Matrox g400 graphic card and WD 40 gig HDD. Case has had the rear grille cut out...

I don't think there was much ambient noise. It was about 9:30PM, the TV was off and nothing else was making any particular noise that I can remember. I keep my monitor turned off when I'm not using the system (I hadn't been in there for a few hours) and the power light on my 3700BQE is very dim. I ...

You need to enable the HDD temp monitoring by checking a box on the first "General" screen and then rebooting. After reboot the sensor (if there is one, doubtful on your WD drive) will show up at the bottom of the sensor list drop-down box in the "Temperatures" section. I don't think the WD HDD has...

Have instaled MBM 5.3.5 My motherboard, Albatron PX865PE, is listed and the case and CPU temp sensors are auto selected. I also get a 3rd sensor detected which has a slightly lower, approx 2 - 3C, reading. Would his be the HDD temp? I have a SMART HDD and SMART is enabled in the BIOS. The HDD is a W...