Heatsink, Fans, Sytem Temps and Beeps

[woogie]

I just finished building a system for a friend with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu. He wanted it to be fairly quiet so I used only a couple of Stealth Fans, one in and one out. Re the heatsink, once before I used a Thermaltake 6Cu and it was pretty quiet. The manufacturer states that it's good for chips up to 2100+ so I installed one.

Here are the temps I've been getting: System-around 30C, CPU-around 50C. I had set his Bios temp warnings fairly low, and the warning beeps panicked me a little. They're set higher now, but I have a few questions.

1. What are safe temperature ranges for system, cpu and shut-off.
2. If he doesn't overclock (remember he wants it fairly quiet) is the current heatsink acceptable?
3. Are more fans needed? I originally had one installed in the harddrive cage (Antec put the fan holder there, so I used it) but it added to the noise and I didn't think I needed it, so it's gone.

Thanks much.

[iisbob]

Around 50*C is average for an Athlon, i run one 80mm fan in the rear to help the power supply pull heat out, and of course a CPu hs/fan-a Thermaltake Volcano cu6 to be exact.

Even after several hours of instense fragging, my systems' average temp is, CPU=48*c ( or about 110*F ), internal case temp=36*C ( about 85*F )

My system is a lot less noisy than it used to be, and only a couple of degrees higher than when i had the old Global screamer in there.

Plus my wife doesn't complain about the noise now. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif { at least not as much as she used to! } http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/tongue.gif



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[joea64]

I run a Duron (essentially an Athlon "lite") 800 myself; I don't know the exact brand of heatsink/fan that it uses (except that it's, of course, designed for use with AMD CPU's), but I have a FC2000 turbine/exhaust fan installed in one of the unused expansion slots to help draw hot air out of the case. According to Sandra, these are the current temperatures for various components:

Board (including attached cards and RAM) - 76.1 degrees F/24.5 degrees C
CPU - 107.4 degrees F/41.9 degrees C
Power/aux. temperature - 101.9 degrees F/38.5 degrees C

The CPU and power supply temperatures would normally be a few degrees cooler, but the CPU was put through a very intense workout yesterday moving several gigs of files from one hard drive to another while I was swapping out HDD's (as recounted in another thread in this forum). Even so, I think I do well considering that the average temperature for operating Athlons is closer to 50 degrees C.

-Joe-

Originally posted by iisbob:
Around 50*C is average for an Athlon, i run one 80mm fan in the rear to help the power supply pull heat out, and of course a CPu hs/fan-a Thermaltake Volcano cu6 to be exact.

Even after several hours of instense fragging, my systems' average temp is, CPU=48*c ( or about 110*F ), internal case temp=36*C ( about 85*F )

My system is a lot less noisy than it used to be, and only a couple of degrees higher than when i had the old Global screamer in there.

Plus my wife doesn't complain about the noise now. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif { at least not as much as she used to! } http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/tongue.gif





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[Rick]

I follow much the same line as iisbob with the exhaust fan and cpu fans.
If the intake vent in your case is clear you should have all the air you need.

My temps run 47-52C depending on the ambient temps in the room. (NO AC)
the cpu alarm temp should be set to 5-10 above your normal running temps.
I have my alarms set to 60 c ( Haven’t heard them yet) and the shutdown alarm set to 62c

These chips can be damaged at temps above 90C ..

[This message has been edited by Rick (edited 05-27-2002).]

[ranchdog]

woogie...

Here's an article that may help.

http://www.overclockers.com/tips400/


Luck.

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[joea64]

H'mmm, looks like I'm OK. The system board temperature right now is at 25 degrees C (77 degrees F) and the CPU is running at 45.4 C (113 F). I note that this is about 8 degrees F warmer than the CPU usually runs, but then again there is a new and larger HD in the system which is making the CPU do additional work (not to mention that it got a real workout yesterday moving things around), so as long as it doesn't get to 67 C I won't worry, especially if temps inside the case remain stable (as they are - the system board has been at 75 to 77 degrees F for the last two weeks plus).

I credit this temperature stability to having put in one of the new exhaust blower (turbine) fans. As I've mentioned in other places, including elsewhere in this thread, this type of fan fits into an unused expansion slot; the turbine design blows cool (even cold!) air through the case and sucks hot air out the exhaust slots. I think _anyone_ who runs an AMD CPU should seriously think about using one of these babies.

-Joe-

Originally posted by ranchdog:
woogie...

Here's an article that may help.

http://www.overclockers.com/tips400/


Luck.





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