Processor Heat

[Overclocked Dirtbike]

Ok, now it's starting to piss me off. I have a Pentium D Pressler. Whenever it reaches 50% usage, the temperature hits 128 F.

Its idle is around 111 F. I am pretty fed up with this now, I have done so much to cool this down. I have 2 Deltas in the front pushing air in, one big Aerocool sucking out. I also have one Aspire fan blowing right onto the HSF. I am running out of options and dont have the money to spare for watercooling. All temperatures read from SpeedFan. I would like to know what some of the problems are and what could remedy this.

Thanks for your help, all.

[Overclocked Dirtbike]

For the poll, there was supposed to be 101+ degrees, but mark that under 85-100.

[Avalanche]

Oops... At 1st I did not read it correctly and was thinking "C" not "F"... Mine run in between the 76-85 area...

I have two things that help me cool mine down; 1) A/C is set to 77 degrees. 2) My computer sits on top of my desk and the A/C hit the computer directly given that add cooling that I needed...


Avalanche

[SHaCK]

From what i've read 43°c @ idle is nothing to worry about for a pentium D , keep in mind that 2 cores stacked together generate way more heat then a single core.

Though, i believe you should be able to get slighly better temps with the blue orb ( i suppose you have the blue orb II right?, blue orb "1" is a chipset HSF ) your case ventilation seems allright, i'd try to shut off the Aspire fan blowing on your HSF and see what happens.

Are you running your HSF at full speed ? What thermal paste are you using ? Did you carefully applied it following the instructions ?

EDIT : my barton 2500+ @ ~1.85v idles at 40° , full load 45°.

[FunkZ]

If you want extreme cooling you need an extreme heatsink and fan, not one that balances performance with low noise.

At idle mine would run a few degrees above ambient, but they're never idle. At 100% load they're in the 110°-120° F range.

[upd]

Here is what I am going to order for my 3.2 Ghz Pentium D:

Order from Tiger Direct:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2248807&sku=A250-1149

Statistics:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=15749&PageId=2

So how do you fancy having an air-cooled processor with two cores inside, each running at 4GHz? That's right, by swapping the Intel HSF for our CPC award-winning Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 HSF, raising the core voltage from 1.4V to 1.45V and upping the multiplier from 16 to 20, the 840 was more than happy to benchmark at 4GHz - that's an overclock of 800MHz on each core!

[Overclocked Dirtbike]

@Shack:

I cannot control my HSF speed, I have speedfan, but it does not change a thing. My mobo has a mind of its own for cooling. I am using Arctic Silver 5. I applied a very thin layer and followed instructions. I tried putting the Blue Orb (2) on my Rheobus, but my mobo wont go past BIOS and gives me lip about not having a CPU fan connected to it. I was looking through my BIOS to see if I can over ride that feature.

Anyway...

I had an idea. Get a Peltier plate, and sandwich it between my CPU and HSF. The cold side on the CPU and have the HSF cool the plate down. At frozencpu.com, they have an 80watt plate.

http://www.frozencpu.com/exp-02.html?id=RFSqwXPa

I have no experience with these plates, all I know is that you shouldn't put ur computer on Stand-By anymore.

Thanks for the input!

[FunkZ]

You get a splitter cable that breaks the power and ground off, so that you can plug it into a molex or your fan controller or whatever. The signal wire goes by itself to a standard 3-pin connector to keep your motherboard happy.

http://www.svc.com/3pinto4pinad1.html

[b1lk1]

The temps you are describing are more than fine for your CPU. When you start getting into the 70C range, then you are in trouble. ANd for those of you using degrees farenheit, that is 160F. Just get that splitter that puts the RPM sensor on the motherboard header and you can then turn up the fan. Otherwise, you are worrying for nothing as your temps are fine.

[fstroupe]

Oops... At 1st I did not read it correctly and was thinking "C" not "F"... Mine run in between the 76-85 area...
Yeah, me too...just not accustomed to anyone using "F".

If you need a quick converter, I use this one. (http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm)

My CPU idles at ~28C (82F) and load ~42C (108F)

I have mentioned at least three times in the past few weeks that the Pentium D has always had some cooling problems. This very much limited its popularity...until Intel lowered the price about 50% just before the release of the Conroe.

Personally, if my load temp (@100% CPU usage) hit 55C (131F) I'd be losing it. AMD...AMD...AMD...AMD...AMD... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: