[starinna]

Well, ive just replaced my stock hs&f for a Scythe Samurai. This beast is enormous, took my idle temp from 51c to 30c and my mb heat from 35c to 27c. Replaced my old 6cm fan to a 8cm fan to give more air, beautiful. Has a nice control knob to adjust fan speed aswell.

Just found out last night my mobo only accepts 2 banks of PC3200 or 4 banks of PC2700, then it hit me, i currently have (PC3200) one stick of ram at one bank and one stick at two banks, in the words of William Shakespeare, 'Ive got too many banks baby'. Now i know why my PC is a pain the a**.

Just keeping an eye on the temp, and its now steading at 42c, with ram at 28c. Smooooooooooooooth.

Shall i stick more case fans in? think ive only got one case fan installed.

Catch ya later

 

[starinna]

my old heatsink and fan would send my temp to about 54c, this new one has rounded up to 50c, its been most of the day. hasnt made much difference really has it??!??!?!?

 

[starinna]

what dya reckon to these figures?

 

[frostbite]

They're pretty high I get 22° idle with a stock hsf

 

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Quote:

Originally Posted by frostbite They're pretty high I get 22° idle with a stock hsf

Yeah but you gotta remember the athlon XP's ran hotter...

 

[CravinR1]

My 2600 ran in the 50's stock, when I oc'd it to 184/15 (I think its been awhile) it's soar into the 60's! I've had it shut down before.

The XPs just like the heat

 

[starinna]

Any more ideas to get more cooling out of it? the scythe has its fan reversed to draw the heat away rather than blow it down. Ive also reversed my case fan to blow heat out rather than circulate the hot air inside.

And yet im still getting about 50c. just thought i could get it lower. perhaps the xp's are too hot.

 

[laboitenoire]

The scythe isn't actually very good from what I've heard. The best air coolers are made by Thermaltake and Zalman. I get in the mid 40's load with my 2000+ at stock speeds. OC'd to 1.8GHz, I would go up to about 50.

EDIT: Also, you could pull the lid off of your case to see if temps go down. If they do, you probably need a new case.

 

[starinna]

ill give it a go. Its an aluminium case, so i dont know if that helps the high heat?? mine is standard at 1.92ghz, and stops at 50c. Maybe my room is too warm.

 

[starinna]

interesting, took the lid of my pc and the temp. has dropped from 50c to 46c in about 6mins.

 

[laboitenoire]

Yeah, room temps will influence it a bit. My house is 68F during the day and around 63 at night. Aluminum should give you better temps. You might want to consider upgrading your case fans to Vantec Tornadoes or Panaflos. If they lower temps at full speed, get a rheobus for your fans and turn it down until your temps start going up too high.

 

[starinna]

well, my cpu was at 50c with the lid off and case fan blowing outwards. switched off pc, turned fan around to blow air inwards, tidied up the wires (took 5mins), checked temp as soon as windows loaded and it recorded 40c cpu and 27c ram. marvellous

 

[starinna]

need to sort out my airflow, only got one case fan and thats blowing onto the ram and cpu. gonna put fan at front of case blowing in and one fan at back blowing out, should be decent enough airflow. 45c, keep ya posted. signing off

 

[laboitenoire]

Yeah, that should make things a bit better, lol.

 

[starinna]

added another fan, 39c cpu, 28c ram, constant