HOLYCRAP, that is too high! If it was THAT high your CPU would be fried right now. Get the newest version of coretemp to chek your temps. BTW a good HSF wouls be a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, which I got from Ewiz for 30 dollars with shipping. PM me your email and I can send you core temp.
yea its running that hot cuz the stock heatsink wont attach all the way and i think the plastic peices got stripped from trying so many times. Also i am using core temp but thanks anyway...and as for that artic freezer thing ill look into it when i have some money i just wont use the computer till then (luckily theres 2 others in this house lol)
@Windman There should be no "plastic pieces between your heatsink and processor". Remove the heatsink and remove what I assume is the little plastic tray that covers up the heatsink base during shipping. Remove this plastic tray and reattach the heatsink. Note the heatsink should always be completely attached.
thanks for the reply but i just bought a heatsink today and this one is screwed down and now i got temps of about 40-55c
well i had to go to compusa cuz no one else in south jersey seems to sell heatsinks lol. but they didnt have a good selection although i did get a zalman. didnt seem to have a name though all it said was ultra quiet cpu cooler
Good choice, Zalmans coolers are very good. I personally use a thermalright xp-90 on my cpu and will be installing a hr-03 plus on my 8800gts this weekend. I wanna see how far I can overclock this little honey. Peace all
ok i tested my cpu with this cooler on orthos and under load it was at 66c thats still too high for my tastes. any ideas of how to cool it more? I wanna get maybe mid 30's. Right now I have the side panel off and have my big box fan blowing into it and im still getting those temps...do u think i applied the thermal paste wrong or used crappy thermal paste, or is it cuz of the oc?
Thermal paste when applied to liberally can severly hamper the heat transfer effectiveness of the paste. How much paste did u put on? A properly applied amount of heatsink paste should be the size of a pea and applied directly in the middle of the processor. When the heatsink is applied and ratched/screwed down it will spread the heatsink paste evenly across the cpu. And did you remove the plastic tray from the bottom of the heatsink?
hmmmm...really? i put some on there then used a peice of plastic to spread it all over, i think i'll try it again. and yea i removed the plastic piece. now do u think 47c idle and 66c load is normal running a e4300 @ 2.54GHz?
ok well im gonna try reattaching the heatsink, now what kinda thermal paste should i use? I have the stuff that came with the heatsink(uses zinc oxide, thermal conductivity of 1.2w/mk) or the other stuff, i cant remember the brand but it has some silver content and a thermal conductivity of 7.5 w/mk and a thermal resistance of 0.06c-in^2/w
Well I would use Arctic Silver 5. They have instruction on their website with pictures so you should probably look at those. They recommend using a line instead of a little thing in the middle, I think their reasoning is that you have to cover two cores.
Use Artic silver 5, you only need a little bit, about the size of a grain of rice. But yeah 66c under load is kinda high. One more thing i looked at the pic you posted, I would pull the computer out from the wall a bit. Don't forget your 8800 gts is exhausting out the back of your computer and the exhaust might be getting blocked a little and forcing some of the heat back into your case. Good luck
I just looked at your pic again and you don't have an exhaust fan in the back! You MUST get a case with good airflow or the hot air will just stay there.
Also don't smear the heatsink paste around, when you attach the heatsink it will spread the paste around the cpu. And as others have stated don't have the pc so close to the wall and install a exhaust fan.
