Barton temp idle over 50 C ?

smifou · Post by **smifou** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:56 pm

Hi all, this is my first post on this forum, it is a great site. Anyways, I think high temperature on barton cpu are due to bad thermal and bad hsf installation. When i was installing my aero7+ coolermaster on my xp2500+, i was landing the base on the heatsink in angle when it touched the cpu, to clip it easylier, but it was moving the paste away so i got high temp, 60 idle. I installed it correctly making the contact to the cpu as straight as possible, 38 idle. i had arctic silver 3 paste which is pretty liquid compared to the 5. After 1-2 month, it seemed like the paste would leaked down so i still got high temp, 48 idle. I bought the arctic silver 5, doesnt seem to leak down, 37 idle and staying there. Anyone agrees or disagrees?

Unlocked Athlon XP2500+ @XP3000+ stock voltage
Coolermaster Aero7+ min speed
Zalman power supply 400A
Ati Radeon9800pro, passive cooling Zalman 80-C
Papst 80ngl side panel fan 12v
Biggest noise comes from the Aero7+
OCin with more voltage,1.8+, makes the power supply bit more noise

lm · Post by lm » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:03 pm

Remember that temperature readings between different motherboards might not be comparable. Even if they are from the cpu diode.

einolu · Post by **einolu** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:12 pm

A good thing to note is that "blower" fans are extremely inefficient at slow speeds. I had a thermaltake blower on my cpu *vomit* and I had it undervolted to make it barably quiet and my idle for a 2400xp TB B @ 200x10 was 48C idle! I switched the fan to a sanyo petiace and now my temps are down to 40 C idle running at 200X10.5! So get a normal fan...

~EO

smifou · Post by **smifou** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:27 pm

yeah i was thinking about changing the blower to a papst 80mm fan. Even the minimum speed makes enough noise