Hello friends,
I think the hardware Gods are still mad at me for my juvenile manslaughter of my Athlon with liquid nitrogen. Something seems to be up with my new rig's CPU temps.
I built this new machine (around air cooling), precisely to be cool. The case is an Antec 900: It has 5 120mm fans on full blast, and a 200mm fan on full blast. The CPU is an Core 2 duo 6700.
The first cooler I installed was a Thermaltake Big Typhoon with AS5. BIOS reported temps of about 22 degrees. When XP was up and running, however, temps averaged between 40-44 degrees without any programs running.
I've never fully trusted Thermaltake's aircoolers, and I'm really not a fan of AS5 (I did like AS3 though). Yes, I know its the best, but I just don't feel comfortable with the new application instructions (ie, a subjectively thin line which is to be smeared on by the heatsink).
So I get a Zalman CNPS9700 LED. I didn't use the AS5, I used the supplied Hg-based STG1 thermal grease (which I hear is just as good as AS5 -- and a hell of a lot easier to apply).
Yet, core temp still posts an average of 38-41 degrees! An improvement over Thermaltake, to be sure, but not the target 26 degrees necessary for O/Cing. I'm afraid to bring CPU to load. What gives? BIOS posts between 19 and 24 degrees, but not Coretemp. I've reseated the cooler 3 times (using Arctic Silver's cleaning products each time), and coretemp posts nowhere near 26 degrees with XP booted up. What the hell? Any advice??
I think the hardware Gods are still mad at me for my juvenile manslaughter of my Athlon with liquid nitrogen. Something seems to be up with my new rig's CPU temps.
I built this new machine (around air cooling), precisely to be cool. The case is an Antec 900: It has 5 120mm fans on full blast, and a 200mm fan on full blast. The CPU is an Core 2 duo 6700.
The first cooler I installed was a Thermaltake Big Typhoon with AS5. BIOS reported temps of about 22 degrees. When XP was up and running, however, temps averaged between 40-44 degrees without any programs running.
I've never fully trusted Thermaltake's aircoolers, and I'm really not a fan of AS5 (I did like AS3 though). Yes, I know its the best, but I just don't feel comfortable with the new application instructions (ie, a subjectively thin line which is to be smeared on by the heatsink).
So I get a Zalman CNPS9700 LED. I didn't use the AS5, I used the supplied Hg-based STG1 thermal grease (which I hear is just as good as AS5 -- and a hell of a lot easier to apply).
Yet, core temp still posts an average of 38-41 degrees! An improvement over Thermaltake, to be sure, but not the target 26 degrees necessary for O/Cing. I'm afraid to bring CPU to load. What gives? BIOS posts between 19 and 24 degrees, but not Coretemp. I've reseated the cooler 3 times (using Arctic Silver's cleaning products each time), and coretemp posts nowhere near 26 degrees with XP booted up. What the hell? Any advice??