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To start off I have the following system:
Amd XP 2100+ Palmino CPU
Gigabyte GA-7vax revision 1:1 motherboard
528 meg of pc3200 dram
geforce2 mx
sb live value
80gb 7200rpm ide hard drive
and other misc junk
300 watt power supply and a regular old $30 aluminum case
According to eastytune4 (after clicking optimize)
-Mhz - 1741.68
-System bus - 134
-CPU multiplier - 13.0
- Voltage:
CPU - 1.842
dram - 2.5
agp - 1.500
- speed?
PCI - 33
AGP - 67
dram - 335
LINEAR (as opposed to divider?)
System temp: 45 c (at idle after under 1 hour and going up)
CPU temp : 49 c (at idle after under 1 hour and going up)
3 case fans, 1 realllly big cpu heatsink and fan... sides of case have good vents and airflow when on but right now the case if fully open and still this hot...
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My problem is that my computer started having problems, crashing, wierd slowdowns, glitches... I noticed a warning saying my cpu was hot so I looked at easytune. At one point under load it got to 80C.
My house is usually at 72-75 F, I live in Florida and thats cold here, but the room with this computer is currently around 78-84 F because this computer runs so hot.
My little cousin, who I think knows alot about computers, ordered me a speeze cpu fan because it made his similar computer run at about 30 C under load.
I took off the stock fan and cleaned the contacts with 70% alchohol... didn't have anything better around the house. I got most of the gunk off but the old stock amd fan thermal tape gook had leaked all over the top of the cpu and i couldn't clean it all. So I used some soft plastic and scraped off most of what i could but it was like candle wax and it's not possible to get it all. So I got most of it and installed the new fan. I think I put it on in the right direction because it had the little high difference that fits over the side of the cpu socket thingy...
cpu socket kind of looks like this?
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and the fan has that little lip that looked like it was made to accomidate the lip on the socket... or so it seems.
So I plug'd in that new fan and turned it on and instead of the cpu being 65-75C (what it was with amd's stock fan) it's now 50C at idle and at first it ran like a whole new computer! It was moving fast like it originally did and gave me no errors as of yet. It even is playing dvd's and movies again with no problems or system crashes like it was before.
After alot of reading up I concluded that 50c is still a little high and the longer I leave my computer on the hotter is seems to want to get and the slower it's going... So my guess is I didn't install the fan properly, either not enough thermal paste or I put it on completly bassackwards. They provided no instructions for this thing, no diagrams, no nothing... they just said 4 steps. Take tape off gook, put cooler on cpu, use 4mm screwdriver to push clips on, thats a wrap...
Well apparently that was NOT a wrap because it's not working right :(
Now maybe I read something wrong but a 2100+ isn't supposed to run so hot at 1700mhz... if I overclocked it to maybe 1800 I could understand but I shouldn't be able to cook my breakfast on my computer when it's not even being overclocked.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to cool this thing and maybe reclock/overclock it sothat it functions decent? It has me so frustrated I feel like shooting it...
Gona go reinstall the fan and see if it helps... but I've done it three times and it hasn't helped all that much. Least it's 50C instead of 75C though... so I guess I should be happy?
*sigh*
I'll attach a picture of the easytune window with default settings running idle after 20min or so with nothin else running. Maybe that'll help give someone find something I must be missing?
-Tim
Amd XP 2100+ Palmino CPU
Gigabyte GA-7vax revision 1:1 motherboard
528 meg of pc3200 dram
geforce2 mx
sb live value
80gb 7200rpm ide hard drive
and other misc junk
300 watt power supply and a regular old $30 aluminum case
According to eastytune4 (after clicking optimize)
-Mhz - 1741.68
-System bus - 134
-CPU multiplier - 13.0
- Voltage:
CPU - 1.842
dram - 2.5
agp - 1.500
- speed?
PCI - 33
AGP - 67
dram - 335
LINEAR (as opposed to divider?)
System temp: 45 c (at idle after under 1 hour and going up)
CPU temp : 49 c (at idle after under 1 hour and going up)
3 case fans, 1 realllly big cpu heatsink and fan... sides of case have good vents and airflow when on but right now the case if fully open and still this hot...
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My problem is that my computer started having problems, crashing, wierd slowdowns, glitches... I noticed a warning saying my cpu was hot so I looked at easytune. At one point under load it got to 80C.
My house is usually at 72-75 F, I live in Florida and thats cold here, but the room with this computer is currently around 78-84 F because this computer runs so hot.
My little cousin, who I think knows alot about computers, ordered me a speeze cpu fan because it made his similar computer run at about 30 C under load.
I took off the stock fan and cleaned the contacts with 70% alchohol... didn't have anything better around the house. I got most of the gunk off but the old stock amd fan thermal tape gook had leaked all over the top of the cpu and i couldn't clean it all. So I used some soft plastic and scraped off most of what i could but it was like candle wax and it's not possible to get it all. So I got most of it and installed the new fan. I think I put it on in the right direction because it had the little high difference that fits over the side of the cpu socket thingy...
cpu socket kind of looks like this?
______
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||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
and the fan has that little lip that looked like it was made to accomidate the lip on the socket... or so it seems.
So I plug'd in that new fan and turned it on and instead of the cpu being 65-75C (what it was with amd's stock fan) it's now 50C at idle and at first it ran like a whole new computer! It was moving fast like it originally did and gave me no errors as of yet. It even is playing dvd's and movies again with no problems or system crashes like it was before.
After alot of reading up I concluded that 50c is still a little high and the longer I leave my computer on the hotter is seems to want to get and the slower it's going... So my guess is I didn't install the fan properly, either not enough thermal paste or I put it on completly bassackwards. They provided no instructions for this thing, no diagrams, no nothing... they just said 4 steps. Take tape off gook, put cooler on cpu, use 4mm screwdriver to push clips on, thats a wrap...
Well apparently that was NOT a wrap because it's not working right :(
Now maybe I read something wrong but a 2100+ isn't supposed to run so hot at 1700mhz... if I overclocked it to maybe 1800 I could understand but I shouldn't be able to cook my breakfast on my computer when it's not even being overclocked.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to cool this thing and maybe reclock/overclock it sothat it functions decent? It has me so frustrated I feel like shooting it...
Gona go reinstall the fan and see if it helps... but I've done it three times and it hasn't helped all that much. Least it's 50C instead of 75C though... so I guess I should be happy?
*sigh*
I'll attach a picture of the easytune window with default settings running idle after 20min or so with nothin else running. Maybe that'll help give someone find something I must be missing?
-Tim
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