vanaalten
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 Posted: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:07:48 Post Subject: Re: Running too hot!!! |
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| rinnan wrote: | Firstly, I'll admit, it's all worst-case scenario. I built it with no instructions, with the standard plastic (not metal) attachment pins, I used the MII12000, not the M10000.
Also I live in Hawaii, and the ambient temperature is about 81 degrees (27 degrees celcius) indoors, where I am.
It idles at 64 degrees C, too hot. |
My situation: it's a server in a hot closet (about 33 degrees on a rather cold day). It's an M10000, I've used Arctic Silver 3 as a thermal paste, used the standard plastic pins. No optical drive, there's just a hole in the case for now.
Result: it idles at 43 degree celcius; the harddisk is mostly idle at 52 degree celcius.
1) thermal paste makes some difference, but only a few degrees, not 20 or so. You should watch out for too little or too much paste. The manual instructions: put paste on the processor/NB, push the heatsink on it, remove heatsink and check if it made enough contact with the paste.
2) did you apply the paste both on the processor/north bridge AND between heatsink & case?
3) I'm running Linux and at first, the results from the 'sensors' program was different from the BIOS. A different configfile solved this. Did you verify your temperature with a BIOS reading?
If you would like a copy of the manual, mail your mailaddress to vanaalten AT hotmail.com and I'll send you the pdf-file. |
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