Athlon Heatsink recommendations

[SteveC]

After a touch of tweaking, the most I can get out of mine is 483/565MB/s Which is 133Mhz at CAS2. Like you I got RAM rated at CAS3 at 133Mhz, but seems to run at CAS2

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[ALBPM]

Steve, don't spend your hard earned money on the Super Orb....

Paul

[Himself]

SteveC,

Check the airflow of your system before worrying about heatsinks, right now it looks like you are cooling the top of you case nicely and sucking all the hot air in your system over your cpu.

[Alfie]

Duron 700@1,000mhz.
Epox-8kta2 motherboard.
Alpha pal 6035 mfc heatsink
Artic silver compound.
Ambient temp 70f
cpu temp:
medium load =34.5-37.4c
Heavy load= 39.7-43.8c
The Alpha heatsink seems to do a pretty good job.
The Tiasol heatsinks are also good performers and their newer line looks very impressive(like the one shown previously)

[SteveC]

Paul, I was just going to try out a SupoerOrb because I know that my shop I work in is getting a couple in. According to reviews around, it isn't the best, but it also isn't that bad. It fits my boards OK.
I'll see if it's any good.

I've got another problem now though - my PC often doesn't start up. Cycling the power again takes to me the BIOS setup screen and tells me that basically I'm overclocking my CPU too far and it can't boot. I'm only doing 11x100 (133 RAM) at the moment and even at 1.85V it still does it. Once I reset the BIOS to how I want it, it then works....till the next reboot.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Paddy]

Steve, I have the same mobo/chip/Heat sink combo as you.

With the case closed i hardly ever go above 40'C, but then i'm not overclocked (100x10)

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[SteveC]

Hey Paddy!

These mobos and CPUs are getting quite popular! Buy your stuff from Scan, by chance?

What have you got between your CPU and heatsink? When I don't overclock, My temp is nearer 40deg C too.

Oh, and himself: That fan draws air in from anywhere in my case! In through the front bottom is the easiest path, but if I put my hand over my drives (CD-RW,DVD,TAPE,PD) I can feel air going through between them! As my mainboard temp hovers between 28 and 31degC, I don't think that the airflow is that bad...

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[RichL]

Steve
I've read several reviews of the Superorb - most reckon its not much good - certainly not a match for the FOP32's or Alphas.
BTW where do you work? I'm in Stanford and Im curious what PC shops in the locale stock some of the more 'exotic' (ie, its named not generic) overclocking kit.

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[RichL]

PS - Have you tried using CPUIdle?
For those who dont know - this is a little software util for Win9X/NT/2000 that sends an Idle or Sleep command to the CPU when the load is low.
My K6III is Oclocked from 450 to 475, and used to idle at 35C, peaking at 45C after a long session of TFC.
Now it idles at whatever the ambient temp inside the case is (usually 25-29C) and peaks at 37C after some TFCing.

Its not the solution to put on customers PCs, but for your own machine it cant do any harm.

[DentyCracker]

Not much help when you're running seti 24/7 though

[Himself]

At 850 @ 1.72V, running RC5, my duron 600 measures 30C, otherwise 26C. MB temp currently is 20C.

[SteveC]

RichL - I work at the weekends in a shop on the A127 in southend called Brunel Computer Services. We don't usually stock brand name overclocking stuff, but now we're biulding more higher spec machines, we are finding that we have to turn to more sophisticated cooling techniques and so have got/are getting in, the FOP38's, SuperOrbs and arctic silver. BTW: We're only ordering from www.overclockers.co.uk, so it's not any cheaper from us!

I use SETI 24/7 so CPUIdle won't help me...

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Paddy]

Steve: Yup, from Scan.
I got a Tornado 1000 case from overclockers aswell.

I have not put any thermal compound on the heatsink, but i'm anxious to see the results as these chips to seem to run on the hot side.

If i can get the temp down a bit then i'll probably O/C too...

[SCompRacer]

I have a ThermalTake Chrome Orb with my 900 T'bird and it can get to 43C when game stressed, no O'clocking. Runs 34 to 36C idling around, but I do have alot of fans due to SCSI drives heating case.

My mainboard is at 27C right now, CPU 34C.

Ordered some of that Arctic Silver so I can get rid of that thermal pad, anxious to see results.

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[This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 03 January 2001).]