SupermanInNY

Originally posted by jmmijo: Quote: Originally posted by SupermanInNY: Quote: Here is a stupid question: When I purchased my CPU and M/B, I got them along with a fan. No paste. Do I need to add the paste? Would that do the miracle thing about reducing the heat? -Alon. That depends, did you purchase a boxed CPU ?!? If so then you should have noticed the thermal pad on the bottom of the heatsink, pretty much centered and covering up the copper core If you purchased an OEM cpu and an OEM heatsink/fan then that may not have come with a thermal pad. If that was the case then yes, even generic white thermal paste would help out a lot, let alone some of the high quality Silver Paste that is out now Also note, that if you purchased a Prescott core CPU it should be either a copper core or a solid copper heatsink/fan type. Basically any P4 from 3GHz on (for Northwood core) or any of the Prescott core, this includes the Celeron D, has a copper core heatsink/fan. How do I know this, because of all the system builds I make. We use boxed CPU's only because of the warranty and this has always been the case Yes! finally Well.. there was no Paste and no thermal sticker. I went to a local service store, we smirred the paste on the CPU and Voilla,.. the CPU dropped 18 degrees down. My Idle CPU at BIOS screen with lid closed now shows: CPU Temperature: 55.5 Celcius/ 131 Faraen MB Temperature: 33 Celcious/ 91 Faren Thansk for the advise. Obviously this is still not the optimal best drop down temperature, but short of a liquid cooling system, I think that's the best I'll ever get. After all this is a Prescott frying pan. -Alon.

Here is a stupid question: When I purchased my CPU and M/B, I got them along with a fan. No paste. Do I need to add the paste? Would that do the miracle thing about reducing the heat? -Alon.

Originally posted by tsonta101: Quote: Are there any fans in your case to take the air in/out? Also, what graphics card do you have? For example a Radeon 9800 runs VERY hot on stock cooling. So, combine that with the trapped air in the case having nowhere to go and you have a very hot case. Which in turn does not help the processor cool down. Add a couple of fans (even standard 8cm fans help) and tell us if temps drop. Open Case, onboard graphics. And when I mean open case, I mean the board is facing the cieiling entirely open an exposed. No trapped air. That's why I was very surprised to see such high values on power up (and keeps it at constant value) when there is no box issue at all,.. and using the standard Intel CPU fan. The box that I'm using is a 2U box still with the lead open,. so no air traps yet. Originally posted by Wicked101: Quote: My temp was the same with the same processor as yours, thats why I went over to water-cooling Please provide me with the water cooling solution you have. A link would be helpful. Since my box is a 2U box, I will have limited height option. My board is a MicroATX form factor that has 3 PCI slots, Onboard graphics and onboard sournd, and NIC card. I'm not using the AGP slot, just the onboard VGA port. I'm not using any PCI slots either. If a water-cooling option will reduce the temp dramatically,.. and can fit in the box, I would certainly implement it. If you have a link to the water cooling product.. that would be great. Also, can you tell me how high is the entire 'system' from the board to the highest point in the cooling system? I can't exceed the height limit of the 2U box. I've arranged for a 80cm fan to push in and a 120 to pull out when I close the box, so there should be circulation of air, but if I can bring the initial temp down by 20 degrees that's a 33% decrease and that's huge! -Alon.

Hi y'all, I don't understand something: I just turned the machine on, still in the BIOS, the case is open and all I have is the standard Intel CPU cooler and fan. I have P4 3.2Mhz Prescott with the 1MB cache. P4P800-VM with 2GB Kingston RAM (4x512). 500W PS 2x 80GB SATA. Just with power on.. still in the BIOS, the temp readings are: CPU Temperature: 65 Celcious / 149.5 Far MB Temparature: 36 Celcius / 96.5F How is it you are all getting lower readings than that? I mean.. this is on the first 120 seconds of the Power on, still just looking at the BIOS. With the chasis closed and after 20 minutes, the temps inch up (still in BIOS screen) to CPU Temperature: 72 Celcious / 161 Far MB Temparature: 41 Celcius / 105.5F What am I missing? -Alon