Why are my temps so high?

[Guest]

I have an abit KR7A and a thermalright SK6 all copper heatsink, with artic silver III on the core of my athlon xp 2000...on top of all that is one 60x20mm sunon 5400rpm fan...then, I have one 20x20mm sunon fan on the chipset heatsink...then two sunon 80mm fans (one output and one input) and the card cooler xt (two 120mm fans covering the motherboard)...after all this, my system temp hovers around 30C and my cpu temp around 50-60C when idle...what is wrong...I have a nice sized case, and all the cables are zip tied together and out of the way...what gives, what am I doing wrong...my system temp is ok, but what is with my cpu temp?

 

[HonestJhon]

did you take off any thermal pad that was on the heatsink?
also, how much arctic silver did you put on...you only need enough to coat the core...the ammount you need is about half a grain of rice in size...
also, make sure that the heatsink is seated properly on the cpu...
is the heatsink warm? or hot?

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[marneus]

At a guess, here are several possiblities
1.your HSF fan is not powerful enough...
2.too much Artic silver
3.the temp sensor is mad (apparently the standard sensor in the socket base is inaccurate) if poss U could try a Volcano 7, this has its own sensor & and possibly more accurate
4. Any overclocking going on ???

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[HonestJhon]

the volcano 7 has a sensor that makes the fan change speed..
it does not correct the motehrboards reading of the temp.
it has nothing to do with the temp reading.
some temp probes in the socket are accurate.
some are off a little.
some are off a lot.
the most they are off is like 10°C i think.
i doubt that yours is off that much.
touch the heatsink while the computer is on *IF YOU ELECTRICUTE YOURSELF WHILE DOING THIS, DONT EMAIL ME, OR HAVE YOUR LAWYER EMAIL ME, CONCERNING ANY SORT OF REIMBURSMENT....I CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE!*
if the heatsink is cold...then the contact with the cpu and the heatsink is not good.
if it is warm, then it is a good connection.
if it is HOT...and i mean HOT, then there is somehting else wrong.
i dont know what...but something is causing the cpu to overheat.
but putting a volcano7 would MAYBE help with temps, but i think that the heatsink you have on there is better than the volcano7...
maybe the volcano7+ is better, but i dont know.


-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[AMD_Man]

It sounds like poorly applied Arctic Silver to me.

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[Guest]

This is probably the scenario least likely to be the problem.

I've been reading lately that air flow patterns within a case can have a big affect. For example you can have a million CFM's worth of fans in there, but if the effect cancels, it's all for naught. For example if there were some ultra low pressure dead hotspot right in front of the HSF fan, your results make sense.

In general, throughput is what your after, and you want to avoid turbulence.