Well, here is my little story.
I wake up a couple of days ago with the idea to change my Athlon cooling. Well, this summer my tiny core is getting HOT! My XP1800+ was clocked to 1837 MHz (167 * 11) and was reaching on full load 70 to 72 Celsius.
So, I went to the computer store near home and asked for a Volcano 9 cooler... They only had the "CoolMod" version with LED, I really didn't care and bought it anyway! So, I went home, I removed the LEDs and I but this beast on my Athlon...
Power ON!!!! God damn!!! So noisy FAN!!! I tought, what a big mistake!!! What did I bought??? Well the only good news were that y CPU temp went down to 50-52 Celcius on full load.
But I didn't want that noisy thing in my CASE! So, I checked the stuff that Thermaltake give it to me with the Volcano 9. And I found this interesting thing called a temp. sensor that very the FAN speed according to temperature...
The little paper suggest to place this sensor between the CPU and the socket... Almost impossible to do!
FLASH!!!!
So I got this great idea! What if I only put the sensor in my case... So, the fan will speed UP and DOWN with my CASE temperature instead of the DIE temperature... Would it work???
I tried! And it works nicely! Now, the highest CPU temp I see on MBM5 is 59 Celcius, but usually, my CPU temp is between 52-56 Celsius. And I don't get that noisy FAN anymore... My fan speed is always between 3000 et 3600 RPM instead of the noisy 4800-5000 RPM.
So I achieved better overclocking (1920MHz instead of 1837MHz), lower CPU temp. and a FAN that is not too noisy.
By the way, I must admit that my original AMD FAN is still quieter than the Volcano 9 at 3500 RPM.
I wish a couple of you, will use this temperature sensor as I used It. It's a good compromise between noise/cooling.
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Would you buy a GPS enabled soap bar?
I wake up a couple of days ago with the idea to change my Athlon cooling. Well, this summer my tiny core is getting HOT! My XP1800+ was clocked to 1837 MHz (167 * 11) and was reaching on full load 70 to 72 Celsius.
So, I went to the computer store near home and asked for a Volcano 9 cooler... They only had the "CoolMod" version with LED, I really didn't care and bought it anyway! So, I went home, I removed the LEDs and I but this beast on my Athlon...
Power ON!!!! God damn!!! So noisy FAN!!! I tought, what a big mistake!!! What did I bought??? Well the only good news were that y CPU temp went down to 50-52 Celcius on full load.
But I didn't want that noisy thing in my CASE! So, I checked the stuff that Thermaltake give it to me with the Volcano 9. And I found this interesting thing called a temp. sensor that very the FAN speed according to temperature...
The little paper suggest to place this sensor between the CPU and the socket... Almost impossible to do!
FLASH!!!!
So I got this great idea! What if I only put the sensor in my case... So, the fan will speed UP and DOWN with my CASE temperature instead of the DIE temperature... Would it work???
I tried! And it works nicely! Now, the highest CPU temp I see on MBM5 is 59 Celcius, but usually, my CPU temp is between 52-56 Celsius. And I don't get that noisy FAN anymore... My fan speed is always between 3000 et 3600 RPM instead of the noisy 4800-5000 RPM.
So I achieved better overclocking (1920MHz instead of 1837MHz), lower CPU temp. and a FAN that is not too noisy.
By the way, I must admit that my original AMD FAN is still quieter than the Volcano 9 at 3500 RPM.
I wish a couple of you, will use this temperature sensor as I used It. It's a good compromise between noise/cooling.
--
Would you buy a GPS enabled soap bar?
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