Hi all,
I built a new system a few days ago for a customer, and fortunately they don't want it delivered until next friday! So I get to screw around with it until then.
I went for the new MSI K7N420 Pro motherboard, the target price was $1200 CDN after tax, and I wanted the best bang for the buck, the MSI seemed to be the way to go, with the actually decent built on graphics.
In the interest of keeping the system relatively quiet, I went for a ThermalTake Volcano 6CU. I scraped off the yellow pad junk and applied some Arctic Silver II that I had laying around.
I used an InWin A500 case since the system will be sitting on the ground in its new home and the power button is up nice and high. Not the best case in the world for airflow, but I did go for an extra case fan at the front.
Motherboard Monitor shows the CPU temp to peak at 53 degrees after 30 minutes of LAME encoding.
The idle seems to settle down to about 46 degrees, with CPUIdle.
Are these acceptable temperatures given the fact that the system will never be overclocked, and given the sub-fantastic heat sink, the sub-fantastic case, and the fact that the Athlon XP is supposed to run cooler than the T-Bird?
I have a similar system with a TBird 1.33ghz and it runs cooler, thanks to my Alpha PAL6035MFC and a suckhole on the top of my case, so thats why i'm a bit worried about these numbers on the new box.
--jeff
I built a new system a few days ago for a customer, and fortunately they don't want it delivered until next friday! So I get to screw around with it until then.
I went for the new MSI K7N420 Pro motherboard, the target price was $1200 CDN after tax, and I wanted the best bang for the buck, the MSI seemed to be the way to go, with the actually decent built on graphics.
In the interest of keeping the system relatively quiet, I went for a ThermalTake Volcano 6CU. I scraped off the yellow pad junk and applied some Arctic Silver II that I had laying around.
I used an InWin A500 case since the system will be sitting on the ground in its new home and the power button is up nice and high. Not the best case in the world for airflow, but I did go for an extra case fan at the front.
Motherboard Monitor shows the CPU temp to peak at 53 degrees after 30 minutes of LAME encoding.
The idle seems to settle down to about 46 degrees, with CPUIdle.
Are these acceptable temperatures given the fact that the system will never be overclocked, and given the sub-fantastic heat sink, the sub-fantastic case, and the fact that the Athlon XP is supposed to run cooler than the T-Bird?
I have a similar system with a TBird 1.33ghz and it runs cooler, thanks to my Alpha PAL6035MFC and a suckhole on the top of my case, so thats why i'm a bit worried about these numbers on the new box.
--jeff