Radion 9600 Pro

[ZZSpaceman]

I just exchanged my 9200 for a 9600 Pro. Installed it and it seems to be working well. I have an Asus P4C800 Delux motherboard with a 2.4 GHz processor over clocked to 2.64 GHz, stock fan and heat sink pad. The system has 512 MB of Kingston PC3200 memory, and I’m running XP-Pro. I have an X-Dreamer Case that has several fans. I also added a fan to the 9200 that I subsequently put on the north bridge chip.

Before I upgraded the video card the CPU never ran over 30 deg C. With the 9600 Pro my CPU temperature is sitting close to 40 C. Although 40 C really isn't that hot, I'm surprised to see such a large increase. Is this to be expected? The card is running at it stock speed, although I would like to turn it up a bit. Is this to be expected?

As the CPU made it to 2.64 GHz without any problem I was hoping to get it to at least 2.8 GHz. Should I be looking for a better CPU fan or just better heat sink compound?

ZZSpaceman

 

[Nights_L]

Put another video card and see what will happen with your CPU Temp.
Try OC your 2.4 to 2.8 see if it works, if not, get another cpu, I don't think you'll be able to do that with stocked heatsink thus

 

[phial]

hm........well maybe the 9600pro runs hotter and increaeses the temperature of your case? but teh 9600pro is made on a smaller die size so it should technically run cooler



40c isnt hot at all under load. id LOVE to have my CPU at 40c haha

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