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cyrnel · 01-16-2005, 05:03 PM

halx, it sounds like you have the airflow handled. At some point you get dimishing returns (and stoopid noise levels) adding more to make up for other problems.

What cpu and what temps is the BIOS reporting from the health monitoring section?

How comfortable are you with the heatsink/fan and the heatsink to cpu junction? I'd go with jStrider on this. It's not uncommon to have contaminants or a poorly machined heatsink cause cpu temps 10-20C over potential. That'd be my first candidate.

Did you go through a lapping process when it was assembled? Have you removed the heatsink since that time?

The problem could also be some other area of the board, including RAM or chipset. Someimes a manufacturer will release a BIOS update that helps in marginal conditions. Have you checked for progress in this area? It could even be a video card problem.

For monitoring, I still use MBM most of the time. It would be my first choice. The author stopped development but it works well if your board is supported. If not, boards often include monitoring software now. Dig around on the driver CD or the manufacturer website driver/software download section. Otherwise, there are several like speedfan, etc, that work okay depending on your motherboard.

01-16-2005, 05:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	halx, it sounds like you have the airflow handled. At some point you get dimishing returns (and stoopid noise levels) adding more to make up for other problems. What cpu and what temps is the BIOS reporting from the health monitoring section? How comfortable are you with the heatsink/fan and the heatsink to cpu junction? I'd go with jStrider on this. It's not uncommon to have contaminants or a poorly machined heatsink cause cpu temps 10-20C over potential. That'd be my first candidate. Did you go through a lapping process when it was assembled? Have you removed the heatsink since that time? The problem could also be some other area of the board, including RAM or chipset. Someimes a manufacturer will release a BIOS update that helps in marginal conditions. Have you checked for progress in this area? It could even be a video card problem. For monitoring, I still use MBM most of the time. It would be my first choice. The author stopped development but it works well if your board is supported. If not, boards often include monitoring software now. Dig around on the driver CD or the manufacturer website driver/software download section. Otherwise, there are several like speedfan, etc, that work okay depending on your motherboard.