Cooling AM2 recomendations anyone?

**Hellfire** · Moderator Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 2957

Is the temp rising and falling over the random periods?

i.e. Min 1 it's 27. Min 10 it's 36. Min 15 it's 27

If it just goes up and stays up to 36 that's fine (as has been said).

DKZS · Posted: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:49:22 Post Subject: Me noob,me no understand

so well, now ive got a vantec tornado, blowing air to the mobo and the rest of components, 2x 120mm thermaltakes taking air out, a pci thermaltake fan blowing air out from the graphics cards, a 120mm fan moving air around the case (basically just inside the case) and an 80mm blowing air inside the case= a lot of noise and no significant change of temperatures, right now, the cpu is at 32 degrees, and the mobo at 31 without doing anything.

What im doing wrong again? Is the heatsink a piece of s#!7, perhaps?

i have evan tryed to change the cpu fan for a small but fast thermaltake 70mm, double the speed of the amd stok fan, the temperature ddnt go down a bit, and the program of my motherboard to check the temperatures and the fan speeds went crazy telling me that the fan was going at 63973 rpm! to a flat 0rpm in less than half a second.

I have got coming soon a 70mm to 80mm adaptor to connect the 80mm vantec tornado to the cpu heatsink. Do you think it will do something or just noise?

**Hellfire** · Moderator Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 2957

Absolutely nothing wrong with a CPU running at 32 degrees Celsius. In fact, that's pretty good. You might be reaching the limit of air cooling.

I believe the max operating temp is like 65 degrees Celsius, so you're well below that.

The 32C is at idle conditions? Running nothing, sitting for at least 30 minutes?

What is the load temp? Probably high 30's or low/mid 40's. That's very good temps.

On my X2 4200, I was running the Cooler Master Mars, the temps were in the low 30's. On the X2 6000, the same cooler the temps are in the low 40's. Nothing else changed. While I can't wait to get the temp lower, there's nothing with the low 40's for idle temps, and high 40's for load.

I would maybe look at what you can change to decrease the noise level without impacting your temps more than 1 or 2C

DKZS · Posted: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:49:35 Post Subject:

I have downloaded a program mentioned in some of the reviews and i made some screen captures, in normal mode, and hard render mode, This is normal then?

DKZS · Posted: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:50:26 Post Subject:

and here is in render mode, (maxwell renderer)

**Hellfire** · Moderator Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 2957

High difference in temps, but those are still well within the tolerance of acceptable temps. As long as it's below 60 degrees C you're good.

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:10:54 Post Subject:

The rise seems reasonable to me...

And come on, live on the wild side... Let it hit 60C! Laughing

**Hellfire** · Moderator Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 2957

heheh Well you have a few degrees safety margin there. Let's hope the computer room doesn't heat up this summer...

**Modulok** · Posted: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:16:33 Post Subject:

DKZS · Posted: Sat, 26 May 2007 13:46:23 Post Subject:

Ok, finally i got the fan adapter from 70mm to 80mm to change the amd stock fan for the 80mm vantec tornado, and got a cooler master aero gate fan controller, the noise levels are really reasonable.

The temperatures have dropped amazingly from the ones that i showed to you in those screen captures to 22-25 degrees the cpu and 20-23 the mobo. and on working and full fan speed it hits just 31-35 degrees the cpu.

Smile