Recently I have bought a p4E 3.2 cpu, with 1GB DDR-SDRAM, radeon 9800xt, 2 case fans, and (now) a zalman 7000b heat sink. 370W power supply with an intake and out-take fan. I use a ABIt IC7-G motherboard.
With the retail heat sink (once i dealt with a faulty power supply problem) i was getting temps of 72c using a CPU burn-in program. This in itself was fine (it didn;t crash!), except for the noise level so i go a zalman 7000B AlCu heat sink. I expected the heatsink to deal with the noise and cut the heat back - most forums stated a 10c decrease in temp with the zalman. It dealt with the noise but it still heats up to 72c on burn-in mode. This is after running for 1 minutes!! the shop i got it from - which builds personalised PCs - tried changing the CPU to a 2.8 P4 E but got the same temperatures!!!! they have also tried changing the motherboard. The owner of the shop with the mboard as me is running a 3.4 P4E with the retail (intel) heatsink and is only getting a max temp of 61c !!
What is the problem? any ideas?
thanx
Dan
oh yeah the zalman is running at max rpm (2600 rpm)
With the retail heat sink (once i dealt with a faulty power supply problem) i was getting temps of 72c using a CPU burn-in program. This in itself was fine (it didn;t crash!), except for the noise level so i go a zalman 7000B AlCu heat sink. I expected the heatsink to deal with the noise and cut the heat back - most forums stated a 10c decrease in temp with the zalman. It dealt with the noise but it still heats up to 72c on burn-in mode. This is after running for 1 minutes!! the shop i got it from - which builds personalised PCs - tried changing the CPU to a 2.8 P4 E but got the same temperatures!!!! they have also tried changing the motherboard. The owner of the shop with the mboard as me is running a 3.4 P4E with the retail (intel) heatsink and is only getting a max temp of 61c !!
What is the problem? any ideas?
thanx
Dan
oh yeah the zalman is running at max rpm (2600 rpm)
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