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I have a 1 GHz Athlon in an Asus A7V266 Mobo. It runs pretty hot just doing
nothing. Like 48C at 750 MHz and 52C at 1000MHz with the fan going full
blast, the PC case wide open and the computer doing nothing. It even smells
hot. The temperature reading is the same from the BIOS utility and from
ASUS Probe utility. It has a CoolerMaster fan/heatsink assembly installed
with the thermal paste. I absolutely can't live with the noise of the CPU
fan any longer. I even have a variable resistor in series with it to slow
it down and reduce the noise. Believe it or not, cutting the fan RPMs by
40% doesn't affect the temperature much, but cuts the noise significantly. I
really HATE this fan noise. I know someone with a faster Athlon PC that
uses a Zalman heatsink without any fan (silent) that runs cooler than this
thing I have.
Were Athlons of a certain vintage exceptionally hot, but subsequent models
redesigned to run cooler? I think I remember that was how they evolved.
The writing on my processor is as follows:
AMD Athlon
A1000AMT3C
ASHHA0138MPMW
1999 AMD
Is this one of the very hot ones? Can I change to something cooler without
changing the MOBO too? Or am I just out of luck? I'm ready to get rid of
the Athlon, the MOBO and the $50 fan and replace with components of similar
quality but something quieter. MUCH Quieter. Almost silent if possible.
Please suggest what I can do. What is a quiet combination I can put
together from components currently on the market? I'd rather not go to
liquid cooling or a Peltier cooler if I don't need to. Since speed is the
parameter that sells best, does that mean everything is now fast, hot and
noisy? !.0 GHz is plenty fast in my opinion - so I don't care what's the
fastest. I realize they all come pretty fast these days.
Your suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks. Bill S.
I have a 1 GHz Athlon in an Asus A7V266 Mobo. It runs pretty hot just doing
nothing. Like 48C at 750 MHz and 52C at 1000MHz with the fan going full
blast, the PC case wide open and the computer doing nothing. It even smells
hot. The temperature reading is the same from the BIOS utility and from
ASUS Probe utility. It has a CoolerMaster fan/heatsink assembly installed
with the thermal paste. I absolutely can't live with the noise of the CPU
fan any longer. I even have a variable resistor in series with it to slow
it down and reduce the noise. Believe it or not, cutting the fan RPMs by
40% doesn't affect the temperature much, but cuts the noise significantly. I
really HATE this fan noise. I know someone with a faster Athlon PC that
uses a Zalman heatsink without any fan (silent) that runs cooler than this
thing I have.
Were Athlons of a certain vintage exceptionally hot, but subsequent models
redesigned to run cooler? I think I remember that was how they evolved.
The writing on my processor is as follows:
AMD Athlon
A1000AMT3C
ASHHA0138MPMW
1999 AMD
Is this one of the very hot ones? Can I change to something cooler without
changing the MOBO too? Or am I just out of luck? I'm ready to get rid of
the Athlon, the MOBO and the $50 fan and replace with components of similar
quality but something quieter. MUCH Quieter. Almost silent if possible.
Please suggest what I can do. What is a quiet combination I can put
together from components currently on the market? I'd rather not go to
liquid cooling or a Peltier cooler if I don't need to. Since speed is the
parameter that sells best, does that mean everything is now fast, hot and
noisy? !.0 GHz is plenty fast in my opinion - so I don't care what's the
fastest. I realize they all come pretty fast these days.
Your suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks. Bill S.