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 Posted: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:40:49 Post Subject: Re: Cooling the Pentium D |
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| Blue|Fusion wrote: | Hi,
First off let me say I'm new to the forums, but not new to the site (always keep up with the reviews). Now that that's out of the way...I've just recently built my very first DIY PC. I've been running it about two weeks now and no noticeable problems thus far.
With that said, ASUS' AiBooster program reports the CPU at a balmy 43-44C when idle and up to around 60-62C when playing BF2 or COD2. The ambient temperature is reported at 33C most of the time when idle (and room temp is a chilly 20-21C when I can (not summer  )). Under load in the same conditions, the ambient temp gets up to about 40C.
I have a Thermaltake Armor case w/ 2 120mm intake fans, a 120mm and 90mm fan on the back, another 90mm fan on the top, and the psu (3 fans) drawing out the exhaust. The CPU heatsink is the thermaltake Big Typhoon, and CPU is the Pentium D 840 at standard (3.2GHz) speed.
I thought these temps were a bit high, however some said that since this is a dual core (and a pentium) it's bound to be hotter. Are these temps reasonable? I was looking at the Thermaltake Blue Orb II (if it'll fit on the P5WD2 Premium mobo), but want your opinions before I do. Are the temps too high? Any suggestions to get them down some more without going to water cooling?
Thanks for any replies. It's greatly appreciated. |
Alright I have about the same system....same mb and same cpu. I have 2GB of ram and a XL800 512MB card with 2 WD SATA2 250GB HD's. When my room is cold the cpu temp is 112F (idle). When I play BF2 its 163F-165F. Already that is pretty hot, but when I tried encoding a DVD with DVD Shrink I caught it at 191F. Anyways shink has been the only program able to do this....When I watched it the 4 cpus in task manager were close to 100%. Anyways I have the stock heatsink on there now and want to get a new one.....I was looking at the Arctic Cooling - Freezer 7 Pro, but is there a best heatsink for the pentium D? Obviously I may have installed the stock heatsink wrong and am going to check it out, but I want to know if anybody else has used this CPU with DVD Shrink and noticed extremely high temps while encoding. No other program has come close to maxing out the cpus like it does. Oh and I also used crappy Windows XP X64 lol, my room is hot most the time too....75-80. My alternitive would be getting a top end liquid cooling system like the RESERATOR 1 Plus, but is that going to make a huge differnce vs a nice heatsink?
-Sam
Berkeley Web Design
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