Help! Running too hot!
 

Hey, I'm new and I have a question.

First off, for background, I'm running a Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra (Platinum) MB, a AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU w/ stock heatsink and fan, 512MB Corsair PC-2700, a Radeon 9600 Pro, and a Maxtor 80 and 40GB hard drives. I think those are the main heatmakers. I'm running a 350W PS in a mid-tower case. It's got 1 intake fan in the front, I don't know what size.

Now my question is, how do you guys get your computer down to like 97 degrees?! My motherboard dectection says that things are running at like 140 degrees. Way to hot to me. To help I put round ATA cables in, but that didn't do a lot. Any suggestions to cool things down?

Thanks

my p4 goes to almost that high.. nothing i've tried works.. 2 intakes and 1 exhaust.. (well 2if u count psu) so i just let it go..

Thanks, but it still bothers me. Do u think getting a liquid cooled case would be too extreme? Or should I just look at getting more and better fans?

liquid is always good.. (and quieter) i have a "supposedly" real good fan, thermal take spark 7+ but its a screamer and cools just as well (or bad rather)as the stock fan so i just use the stock.

Liquid cooling will definatly help. It dropped my temp a ton and I have the same processor you do except mine is overclocke.

mid tower cases for lots of equipment is asking for lots of heat. a full tower case could be an easy solution to lots of your cooling needs. make sure you are using negative pressure cooling design, that'll help as well.

Thanks for all the help. I'm in a dorm, so the full tower may not work. Are all the liquid cooled cases full towers? It looked like it. Also, what cases do you reccomend, or should I just buy a kit and hook it up to my current case?

I have a P4 3.0Ghz C (not OC) in a Antec Sonata Case with 2 120mm Fans and my case temp is about 27C and the PSU temp is about 35-38C, but my CPU temp at idle is 45C and underload is about 55-62C. I have remounted the heatsink twice using Artic Silver 5. NOthing seems to help.
What else could I do?

Is that the 800 fsb model or the 533?

It is the 800FSB. Why do you ask?

Makes no difference.. you might be putting too much or too little of the goop on.. or the v-core might be up

I will pull it off and try it again. Thanks for the help.

The reason I was asking is because the stock cooler should run the 800 fsb at about 33C. I just built a system with it, and the oc to 3.30 only pushed it up to 34C.

yeah, my temps are always between 25 - 40C, and ive got 2 intakes and 2 exhaust + PSU fan. with stock sink and 3000+. id say add more fans, and try dropping your VCore to 1.6.

always remember to use VERY little thermal goop on the cpu.

thermal goop? that a technical term?

Hehe, it is among nerds...It's one of those inet phrases like "n00b" and w00t....

yea.. substitute goop for paste...

Exactly, like box for case or axe for guitar...

box means whole computer too.. like "linux box"
never heard axe though...

Yeah, that's what we guitar junkies call our guitars...

Anyone Know where to find this???
 

OK, I have been looking up cooling a lot lately and I HAVE, note that I said HAVE, found a 24 volt (two 12 volt 4 pin plugs) fanless, waterless cold cathrod CPU cooler which keep the temp. at a constant -2 celsius. I HAVE FOUND THIS. It costs around $60 total. If I remember, it was made by ThermalTake but it was about 1 month ago. I know this is out on the web somewhere but I can't find it anymore and I don't remember the name of it.....have any of you guys (or girls) found this and could tell me where it is???

I'm asking cause I want to kick my own ass for not getting it.

Thanks!

I actually bought one, it's a waste of time and money. It's not what you think it is. It was a cooler with a cold plate on the bottom. My processor got hotter than ever with it. If you want cool, get water cooling. It was called the SubZero4G btw.