How hot is your system?

42 is good. mine is 35-40 under load. everything under 50 is fine with me.

You are fine - 42C is absolutley nothing to worry about - very low in fact.


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Mine is 49c idle, and 55c while playing games.

K cheers, still might buy a pci extractor fan. As now i have got a geforce 2 64mb mx-400 agp in.

Dude 42 degrees is good. Most Athlon systems run over 50 degrees with stock coolers. At least that's what I've seen. I just ordered some Arctic Silver II though...

My AXP 1600 with Volcano 7 runs at 46 ºC idle or whatever I guess! It is pretty hot with such a cooler, a reason to why it is so damn noisy. I am gonna add case fans this week, to see how it goes. When cold booting, it's at a cool and silent 28ºC. How much would 2 case fans help??? I am not gonna pay for more, these things cost 15$ CDN each! Is it better to get 2 80mm from Antec or 2 80 mm Ball Bearing Generic? What's ball-bearing?

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I love my o/c'ed Tbird at 945 running at 35-38 C idle and 42 max That's just with a Global Win FOP32-1 and adequate case cooling.

Hard work often pays off in time, but laziness always pays off now.

Yeah, I think your right. On most of the systems I've built there is only the single mount for a fan down in the lower front of the chassis for intake air. I need to install some fans in the 5.25" bays I guess to bring more air in.

On my personal system (PentiumIII) I've added a squirrel fan for exhaust, and one of those PCI port fans for more intake. I did this because my video card tends to run hot (GF2 MX400). It ran at 57 deg C without the exhaust blower and PCI fan- now it runs at about 50 deg C. These are no-load conditions too.

Yep. Just obtained and installed the PRG.

My temps have gotten as low as 24C, even on an OC'd XP 1900+ @1716 MHz.

Of course on Braziliantech.com, there are Temp FX BIOS's, ONLY for ASUS boards, and not for other boards such as Epox, MSI, Gigabyte, etc... :-(

Nevertheless, thanks for the URL :-)

sounds like very nice temps... for a nice quiet heatsink.
i run at 40-45 full load with my athlon 1200C.
but ive heavily overclocked to 1400 and are using a monster swiftech cooler

The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD.

Ball bearings just make the fan less likely to burn out.

Eden try this program, you can lower the speed of your fan so that it quiets down a bit, just don't lower it too much ..
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

I know and I will have the techies tommorow examine the case's airflow. It is well aired though, for a generic one. It has on both sides 2 stacks of air holes up and down, or each side of case and on back with an additional rear case fan other than power Supply one.
Hopefully it will help tommorow.


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The other day I heard an explosion from the other side of town.... It was a 486 booting up...

I'm not a good one to ask really. My experiences with various cases is rather limited. But I did see some really cool (no pun intended) Aluminum cases that are supposed to be like one giant heatsink because they conduct so well. But boy are they pricy (>$200!!!).

You might want to look into some of those round IDE cables. I don't know how much this improves airflow, but I'm thinking of trying it myself. Those squirrel fans seem really good for exhaust, but my complaint is that they have to be installed at the bottom. Because hot air rises, it seems better to put the exhaust fans at the top...

My system, athlon 1.13 kt266chipset thing runs at about 34c when i switch it on, and the highest i've seen it is about 49c. My case temperature is usually a few degree's lower. And i've always got the side of the case off too.

ASUS boards are compatible with PCprobe software so you can constantly monitor the CPU temperatute. Pentium processors have a built in temperature limit of 50°C, so I take that as being the upper desirable limit for processor temp.
Case fans are good, but they will only really make a difference if the temp inside your case is 10°C higher than the outside temp. Your power supply has a fan which should draw the air from inside the computer to outside. Check the jet of air coming out, does it feel real warm? Probably you could use some extra cooling.
A good powersupply with come with 2 fans and some fan regulation to increase the fan speed at higher temps. Remember, your power supply sits right above your CPU and has a vent in the bottom to draw air in, good powersupplies have 2 fans, one for the intake vent inside the case, and one for the outlet. This can help draw cooler air over your CPU heatsink/fan.
Check out the <A HREF="http://www.aopen.com/products/housing/hq08.htm" target="_new">Aopen HQ08</A> case. This is good design. On some other cases be careful, don't be fooled by air outlets on the back of the case. If they are lower than your CPU they could just be sucking air in from the front, and straight through out the back, good cooling for your PCI cards yes, but not for the CPU and HD. In the Aopen case the case intake is at the bottom at the front and the outlet is at the top at the back, so air must circulate throughout the whole case cooling your MB, processor and HD.
Finally, remember, with air cooling, your case cannot be cooler than the ambient air temp. Keep your room below 20°C and your processor will like you for it.

Hay uraniborg.
this might sound strange I already have the Artec cpu cooler 1.5ghz and Gemstone case.