I always found my system temp to be quite high when using 2 CPUs. Now after 8 hours of 100% CPU beating both 366@550 only reach 41 Celcius degrees but the system reaches 55 Celcius. Why is that, and is it excesive?
I've put thermal paste under the BX greenie and dropped a 40x20mm fan over it with spacers to allow good airflow. It might not be doing a great contact since the white pins seem to be loose... air coming from the small fan is cooler than from the CPU.
Any ideas?
High system temp
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That sounds OK for 100% load.
It's a common misconception that the system temp is taken from the "greenie". The sensor is in fact located by the groups of 4 capacitors, between the CPUs and AGP slot, and is labelled RT3.
BTW, adding more cooling to the greenie is always a good idea. Having two CPUs puts more strain on the venerable BX northbridge chip, so it gets hotter than on most BX based boards.
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That sounds OK for 100% load.
It's a common misconception that the system temp is taken from the "greenie". The sensor is in fact located by the groups of 4 capacitors, between the CPUs and AGP slot, and is labelled RT3.
BTW, adding more cooling to the greenie is always a good idea. Having two CPUs puts more strain on the venerable BX northbridge chip, so it gets hotter than on most BX based boards.
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Here's an image of RT3:
![Image](http://216.170.15.226/index_files/rt3.jpg)
![Image](http://216.170.15.226/index_files/rt3.jpg)
Last edited by hyperspace on Sat Nov 13, 2004 1:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
*staples a fan over the rt3
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