How hot are you?
 

I'm a bit of an overclocker so am always curious about temperatures in pc's. I was wondering what everyone is running their cpu at.

My Duron 800@952 is currently running at 45c when pretty idle. It get's up to 51c~ when pushed. I daren't think what my voodoo3 gets to when I clock it at 20mhz and plat UT, 44mhz more than it should be:eek:.

I'm using a Tiasol CGK742092 HSF and some artic silver II plus a lot of fans in the case.

So how hot are you? I know what this my deteriorate into :rolleyes:

I'm hotter than hot! :D
Now, of course you already know that. ;)

I don't have numbers, but my case is always pretty freaking hot. Slot Athlon in an HP case. Very hot.

HP cases are slightly bigger than matchboxes so :eek: how has that not melted?:igor:

You should see the heatsink/fan setup. Then you'd really wonder how it hasn't melted.

code:


(without fan)

                 +----------

+-+|------------ | DVD

| ||--H--------- | Drive

|A||--E--------- |

|T||--A--------- |

|L||--T--------- |

|O||--S--------- |

|N||--I--------- +----------

| ||--N--------- | CD-RW

| ||--K--------- | Drive

+-+|------------ |

                 |

                 |

                 |

                 +----------

No room for fans on the heatsink, so there is this wierd L-shaped "blower" that has a fan in it. It blows air from outside the case (the back of the case) onto the side of the heatsink (the side you can see in the diagram).

That is one bad setup there. Ideally you need the air blowing in at the bottom of the case and out at the top, a fan on the heatsink and a fan on the powersupply blowing the air away from the HSF and out the back.

code:


           AIR OUT

    --------|--|------------------

AIR |----¬| |          |CDRW      |

OUT |PSU| | |         |          |

    |-------          |DVD       |

AIR =   _             |HDD1      |

OUT =  |*| <=====     |          |

    |             ^   |HDD2______|

    |-----        ^              |

    |---------    ^              |

    |--BIG----    ^              |

    |--FAN----      <=========   =

    |---------      <=========   =  <==Air in

    |____________________________|

my case is that exact setup, cept you need to add in another couple of hard drives.

also, i have nice realtime mrtg graphs of my system and cpu temp.
fear.

My AMD 1200mhz goes from 50°C to 55°C. Too high for my liking. But it is too high? and what are good motherboard temperatures?

To improve things i'm been keeping the side off the case and blowing a large fan into it. That sorts it. The heatsink is far too loud. This makes it louder. That is the only problem.

I got a big fan for the back. Which way should it be? Facing the CPU and blowing air onto it, or the other way (sucking air out the back of the case)

(Remembering that I can't really get a fan in the front of the case for better airflow)

code:


           

    -------------------------------

    |-------          |DVD        |

    |PSU              |CDRW       |

    |-------          |           |

    |                 |FD         |

    Fan |CPU & HS |   |HD1 (broke)|

    |                 |HD2        |

    |                             |

    |--graphics card              |

    |--blower fan thing           |

    |--stuff-------               |  

    |_____________________________|

I run a 933MHz Pentium III

According to MB Monitor 5 the temps are

Motherboard - 28 degrees, never varies unless I run it flat out for long periods, then it might reach 29.

CPU - 32 degrees idle, up to 45 if run flat out, this is the highest I've ever got it to anyway.

UJ

My athlon 1.33 runs at 50-55 deg C :eek:
i try to cool it as best i can

code:


+--------------+----------------+

|PSU (with fan)|     |           |

+--------------+     | CDRW      |

:case  +--------+    |           |

:fan   |athlon  |    |           |

:#2    |heatsink|    |HDD2       |

|      |/fan    |    |FDD        |

|      +--------+    |HDD1(HOT!) |

|                    +-----------|

|--GFX (w/fan)               case:

|                            fan :

|--Lan                      num#1:

+--------------------------------+

Where I said big fan i mean one of these
http://www.theoverclockingstore.co.u...ics/800100.jpg
A good system temp is about 25c i think. I run at 22c.

The fan at the rear of the case should be taking the hot air away from the cpu so it should be blowing out.

I'm thinking of making a blowhole in my case above my card cooler and painting the blabes with uv sensitive paint so you can't tell until I turn on a cold cathod tube light in my case :).

Seems everyone else is running AMD. Do these naturally run hotter than Intel ?
I've read somewhere that they need a bigger power supply, so must assume they do.

UJ

Athlons run hotter than PIIIs, yes. The P4 needs a huge power supply, but I don't know what temp it runs.

P4's run slower when they get too hot as not to burn up, amd's don't. An athlon will die in 8 seconds if not fited with a heatsink of sorts. Amd's are preferd thought because they overclock better.

I've just seen this:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/gwcak-II38.jpg
I'm tempted, but I've spent a lot this week so I can't :(

Athlons are preferred because they are faster. Most people don't overclock their Athlons.

Athlons are easier to o/c so I know I would if I had one :cool:.

a cool 29 deg C (it's an AMD 533)

Just had a chat with a mate 'who knows about these things' and he tells me it's not how much heat you produce, it's how fast you get rid of it that counts.

Apart from heatsinks and fans it also helps if you've got a big plenum.
Of course I was shocked to hear such language until he explained that this is just the size of the air mixing chamber provided by the inside of the case. In a small case it is possible that the air will flow along fixed paths without too much mixing, and unless it's carefully designed a lot of the cold air won't touch the parts it needs to and be wasted.

I built my own and seem to have done O.K. Though more by luck than judgement it has to be said.

His tips for cooler chips were.

Don't fit the heatsink yourself, unless you know what you are doing. I've just clamped mine on with a sticky pad. He says I could do a lot better, but don't really need to.
Fit an exhust fan as close to the CPU as possible.
Make sure plenty of air can get in. It does no good sucking on a vacuum.
Use a big case.

UJ

I agree with all of the above :)

I just put XP on and it seams stable although winamp just took forever to load :).

My Compaq doesn't have a thermal sensor so I have no idea how hot I am:( ;)

One more reason to hate Compaq. Some time soon I'm going to have a massive rant in the Bitchlist about this. I need to vent some steam.

My Athlon Xp 1600+ runs at about 40-55 C. I have herad that the Athlon Xp is supposed to get better tempratures than the Thunderbird. Basicly, if it ever gets to 65 C then I turn it off and let it cool down.

I've got a 1ghz athlon. When it's idling, it's just above room temperature (about 23°C), the highest I've ever had it was 45°C, and that was in the middle of summer.

FUGGIN NERDS!
I saw the thread title and expected to see some nipples:(

http://www.bme.freeq.com/pierce/08-nipple/large1.html

;)

WHY do men have nipples?
What alien geneticist fucked that up?
Like I'm gonna give dry squirts to some of my offspring :confused:

That'll be the same one that gave you a nose that runs, and feet that smell.:)

UJ

The swine! Don't tell me he had something to do with hereditary baldness?

If AMDs run hotter, that statement makes 0 sense.

The statement makes 0 sense to me since my decyphering capabilities are limited tonight.

where can I get said mobo monitor 5?

Athlons overclock better because P4's slow down when they get warm.

You'll find Motherboard Monitor 5 at

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

UJ

Are notebook computers more suseptible to over-heat than a regular computer? Its a computer all crunched in a 15x17x1 inch rectangular prism.

My motherboard is at 33 C and my CPU at 38 C
I use a P-4 1.5 Ghz with Intel 845D motherboard.
At what temp. do P-4's slow down?

They are easier to overclock because they aren't multiplier locked. If they are (like mine was) you just join up a few wires on the chip with a pencil to reinstate where they were cut with the lazer.

even while playing TFC yesterday my CPU didn't get above 24c. (of course it's about 15c in the room...)

it's a 1gig athlon... time to overclock!