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[adamcromack]

okay, so this one's been bugging me for a while,

what is considered normal temps for my cpu (in farenheight)? I have a pentium d 830 at stock 3.0ghz. also 1gb ram, and everything is completely stock - nothing added to it yet. now, normally, it idles at around 130-135 degrees, which i think is pretty hot...? Under lots of stress, I can keep it under 150 - generally its around145-148 when I;ve got about 15-20 tabs open in firefox, playing some music, chatting online, doing some stuff in photoshop, and maybe doing some downloads. I have a feeling that this is pretty hot, and after watching that movie on the other topic about why we need cpu coolers, I'm kindof worried about my cpu and it's apparent lack of a cooler alltogether...? When I get home I may be able to post some pictures so you can see what I'm looking at. If there isn't one, I should probably get one? and would it be easy to install into a factory built computer like this? (it's a sony vgc-rc110g, incase you're wondering).

so i found out that my max should be around 145f(63c). but sometimes i do go over this... what can i do? i will be sure to check tonight if i acutally am missing a cpu cooler alltogether..

another update... i discovered that simply by taking off the side panel, the temp drops by nearly 10degrees(f)! makes sense,  cuz it is a metal case... so is there a way i can force the fan to spin faster? its a fairly big fan meant to spin slower to keep noise down - it does a great job at that, so i can deal with a little more noise, that's not a problem. i was doing a little more research and found out that apparently only fans with 4 wires coming out of them can be speed-varied. i do have a program called speedfan (actually taken from the dl's section of an older version of this site [pre server-switch]) that i use to keep the fan at max, 100%, speed. but that's only at 562rpm? maybe something im doing wrong in the program here?


or just look here and ignore all that...
all i need to do is be able to speed up the fan past 560rpm, which apparently is only 23% of its full speed abilities..

[Kyle]

150 isn't extremely hot, but it is pushing it, i would try to get it at least a little lower.

There should be a option in your BIOS somewhere to turn something that i assume would be like "cool N quite" thats what AMD's version is called, its pretty much kept makes the fan go up or down depending on the current temperature. It's also possible that that its like mine, which i found out by a e-mail the the manufacturer support, where you can change the settings and there is a on-board sensor and it changes by itself, and you have no control over it.

You might want to invest in a better heatsink/fan or take it off and check the thermal paste under it.

[adamcromack]

i may invest in a better fan, at least. i've checked everywhere in the bios, and can't find anything remotely close to the 'cool n quiet' thing you describe. also, i was thinking about getting a fan speed controller that mounts in an open 3.5" expansion bay slot. here's what i'm thinking of... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813998803 maybe not that one, but something quite like it - because it changes the speed automatically. and i think it would work because of my fan having 4 wires instead of 3? when i get a chance, i'll tell you what i do see in the bios about the fan speed/voltages. also, where could i get some thermal grease? think a local radio shack would have it?

Here is a pic of what I have right now -- apparently no cpu fan? or at least that's what it looks like compared to that video...http://www.xtechforum.com/adamcromack/misc/comp.jpg

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I had a Pentium D 930, and it ran about 25C (77F) idle.

150F is very hot for that chip, deffinetly find a way to cool it.

[adamcromack]

look at the pic, and realize that fan only runs 580rpm tops. something's wrong here...

i looked up my fan model number on the manfg's website and found out that it can and should be running, at full speed, at 2200rpm. a vast difference from my measley little 560rpm. alas, the true problem of it all.. now to go about fixing it...

----so now speedfan works, after much fiddling around with it.. and the fan runs around 1000rpm at least, sometimes up to 2300. so it keeps the cpu idling at 113-115 degrees-f, and i havn't gotten a load read for it yet, but should sometime soon.. arghh it was speedfan all along..