My specs are as follows:
A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Core 1.8Ghz
1GB DDR PC3200 PNY
ATI X800 Pro
I am using a Thermalltake tower112 heat sink with 2 fans, link: Here and I installed it last night. Before I was on the old non over clocking fan, I believe a Speeze brand up to 2800+ and had a overclock to 2800+ (2.0 GHz). it was stable and decent temps for that, like 52 ish C Idle and 57-58 Load. Quite high, but I was willing to live with that till the better heat sink arrived. Also during this, Asus's PC Probe Temp monitoring program always gave me a temp about 10 ish degrees lower than the BIOS hardware monitor, if I rebooted to bios. i also trust the BIOS temp. Now that i have the new fan installed, I was fiddling getting more overclock on, and had it at 3200+ (2.2 GHz) and it seemed stable, BIOS was like 45 C, and PC probe was 35, 10 degrees lower. so i was doing my thing, constantly checking PC probe and adding 10 degrees, and stayed around 45 ish, till i rebooted and found it 62 C. so I immediately put to 3000+ (2.1 GHz) and it lowered to 55 ish, and i have had it at that since, and its been wavering from that to 60. All reported as 40 C in pc probe. Another thing is if i touch the copper base of the Tower112 Heat sink, see the picture in the link, its not even warm, same with the rest of the heat sink. I applied the right amount of the good PCM+ Thermal Paste that i bought with it, and install went fine. I’m wondering if there is some size incompatibility with my motherboard, making it not touch the CPU properly, or if i should trust the PC Probe and not the BIOS, or if i should assume the temp is good and ignore both and think a dead temp monitor. ive noticed no problems in games or any typical signs of overheating. I belive i should be able to overclock more than what i could with the old fan, right?
A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Core 1.8Ghz
1GB DDR PC3200 PNY
ATI X800 Pro
I am using a Thermalltake tower112 heat sink with 2 fans, link: Here and I installed it last night. Before I was on the old non over clocking fan, I believe a Speeze brand up to 2800+ and had a overclock to 2800+ (2.0 GHz). it was stable and decent temps for that, like 52 ish C Idle and 57-58 Load. Quite high, but I was willing to live with that till the better heat sink arrived. Also during this, Asus's PC Probe Temp monitoring program always gave me a temp about 10 ish degrees lower than the BIOS hardware monitor, if I rebooted to bios. i also trust the BIOS temp. Now that i have the new fan installed, I was fiddling getting more overclock on, and had it at 3200+ (2.2 GHz) and it seemed stable, BIOS was like 45 C, and PC probe was 35, 10 degrees lower. so i was doing my thing, constantly checking PC probe and adding 10 degrees, and stayed around 45 ish, till i rebooted and found it 62 C. so I immediately put to 3000+ (2.1 GHz) and it lowered to 55 ish, and i have had it at that since, and its been wavering from that to 60. All reported as 40 C in pc probe. Another thing is if i touch the copper base of the Tower112 Heat sink, see the picture in the link, its not even warm, same with the rest of the heat sink. I applied the right amount of the good PCM+ Thermal Paste that i bought with it, and install went fine. I’m wondering if there is some size incompatibility with my motherboard, making it not touch the CPU properly, or if i should trust the PC Probe and not the BIOS, or if i should assume the temp is good and ignore both and think a dead temp monitor. ive noticed no problems in games or any typical signs of overheating. I belive i should be able to overclock more than what i could with the old fan, right?