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Help With An Old Board...
A family member of mine asked me to upgrade their system for them... Upon taking it home, I discovered it has a GA 7N400-L mainboard, and it really appears to have temperature sensor problems causing all the fans to run at max, all the time. From being off all night, to booting into BIOS, it reports a CPU temp of 60C. Letting it run in BIOS it gets up to about 67C... this is with the case wide open and an ambient temperature of around 18C. Removing the CPU fan and touching the heat sync, its only warm, certainly not 67C. I've read that the the GA series is known for reporting temps about 5C high, but this is ridiculous! Any suggestions? |
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Help With An Old Board...
On 5/9/2009 10:43 PM, Bill wrote:
What happens when you clean out the cpu heatsink and apply some fresh heatsink grease? I had already cleaned the heatsink and the blades of the CPU fan, but didn't think about the grease... Picked up a tube of Arctic Silver 5, and applied it to the CPU and (and the NVIDA gpu, for good measure)... At idle on the Windows Desktop, I'm now getting ~50C for the CPU and ~54C for the GPU. Not quite enough to get the fans to spin down, but certainly healthier temps, although I think idle 50C is still high for an Athalon 3200. Thanks for the suggestion, Bill. |
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Help With An Old Board...
Ryan P. wrote:
On 5/9/2009 10:43 PM, Bill wrote: What happens when you clean out the cpu heatsink and apply some fresh heatsink grease? I had already cleaned the heatsink and the blades of the CPU fan, but didn't think about the grease... Picked up a tube of Arctic Silver 5, and applied it to the CPU and (and the NVIDA gpu, for good measure)... At idle on the Windows Desktop, I'm now getting ~50C for the CPU and ~54C for the GPU. Not quite enough to get the fans to spin down, but certainly healthier temps, although I think idle 50C is still high for an Athalon 3200. Thanks for the suggestion, Bill. As you stated in your first post, the sensor on that motherboard series does run too high. Several years ago when I was running a 3200+ at 100% load on a 7N400-L, it was getting up into the upper 60s C with the stock heatsink/fan. I put a much better one on it and it ended up running in the upper 50s C. Still hot, but it's a hot processor and an odd sensor. George |
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Help With An Old Board...
On 5/11/2009 11:39 PM, gdp wrote:
As you stated in your first post, the sensor on that motherboard series does run too high. Several years ago when I was running a 3200+ at 100% load on a 7N400-L, it was getting up into the upper 60s C with the stock heatsink/fan. I put a much better one on it and it ended up running in the upper 50s C. Still hot, but it's a hot processor and an odd sensor. I don't think he'll need to worry about running at 100% too incredibly often. At load, it seems to hover around ~63C now... before the Arctic Silver, it got up to ~77C. If I can find a better heatsink/fan for cheap, I'll throw it on there. Maybe I'll be able to quiet the system down. The CPU fan constantly runs at a 4600RPM at idle, and get up to 5200 at load. In getting the most bang for the buck, I played with overclocking. I got up to 211 FSB before it got unstable. I'd play with the memory timings to get more out of it, but with the age of the board, I'm hesitant to ask too much of the board! It runs Warcraft perfectly smoothly now, which is all he wanted, so maybe I'll just quit while I'm ahead! |
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