Cooling the Pentium D

tomato · Rated NC-17 Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 107

Geez, reading about all these hot P4 D chips makes me wonder if I should use a water cooling kit when I install my P4 830 D....? Any thoughts?

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:49:32 Post Subject:

I don't know if you need to go that far. BB seems to be doing fine with the same chips as mine, but I still don't know how.

I heard that the later cores in the Pentium Ds (.65nm; 9XX series) runs cooler, however can't confirm that.

420666 · Rated PG Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 4

This Big Thermaltake Typhoon - CL-P0114 kicks a$$ and I recall the load temp on the intel site being 161 or 163F. I cant get it to get over 141F. When I play BF2 it is around 132F. I think getting some type of heatpipe will be enough rather that going all out and getting liquid cooling

alilxmas · Rated PG Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 3

A friend was havign the same problem, but basically I suggested a few thigns and his temps dropped from idle 40-42, load 62-65

Basically he replaced the stock heatsink for the XP-120, I know this thing is a monster, but it just works so great with a decent 120mm fan on it. And not as heavy as it looks, nice and solid feel when attatched. Havent seen the SI-120 yet so I can't comment on that version.
There is an option to use it on a LGA775 socket.

The other thing was to turn the heatsink 90 degrees if possiable, and have that back fan blowing IN so that the cooler air from the outside was blowing inbetween the fins of the heatsink. between the air being ddirectly from the outside and also the larger heatsink and 120 fax, his temps dropped alot. even surprized me they are now 28-32 idle, load 38-41, actually I have never seen it go over 40 and watched the machine under load for over half an hour. he lives in one of those houses where it is usually 70-80 degrees as well.

Have you thought about getting a sererate temp measuring device? Or trying other temp monitoring thigns like MBM?

Good luck and keep us posted when you have a final solution that works.SI-120

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:09:29 Post Subject:

What method is best to get temps from the chips? Currently, I'm using the onboard Winbind sensor chip, accessed via lm_sensors and watch it on my desktop on GKrellM2.

What are the advantages of a seperate temp monitoring solution?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:19:29 Post Subject:

Motherboard sensors aren't always that accurate, so sometimes getting a thermal sensor with a digital display gets more accurate results. But, you then have to affix the sensor as close to the CPU as possible... Generally on the base of the heatsink just out of the way of where it will contact the processor.

Next time I take one of my D840 systems apart I will get a thermal sensor on there to tell you how close it is to the motherboard's sensor.

tomato · Rated NC-17 Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 107

I'm going to use a Hyper 6+ that was given to me to cool my CPU, rather than water cooling... I'm not that confident about having that much liquid in my computer.... so I will go with the traditional air flow solution Wink

edvallie · Posted: Fri, 19 May 2006 22:03:59 Post Subject:

staraxan · Rated PG Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 3