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Temperature. . .

Feb 14, 2004 3:45AM PST

My new Shuttle AN35N-400 motherboard has sensors and I have installed Motherboard Monitor 5. This is new to me so I'm wondering about the processor. It runs at about 55C, or 129F. Visiting the Shuttle site gives me no information about max temp.

I have one large fan and heat sink on the AMD 2400+ processor and 6 case fans, and the Arcade FX GEForce video card has its own fan. Is this about right?

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Re:Temperature. . .
Feb 14, 2004 4:05AM PST
www.amd.com has the Maximum temperature. It's about 90C for most of the Athlon/Duron line and 55C is about what everyone sees.

"I have one large fan and heat sink on the AMD 2400+ processor and 6 case fans, and the Arcade FX GEForce video card has its own fan. Is this about right?"

Only if it's lifting off the floor.

Bob
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Feb 14, 2004 1:00PM PST

I'll visit AMD. Believe it or not it's really quiet. The case with slots out the kazoo and the fans was only $70.00 bucks.

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Feb 14, 2004 12:04PM PST

Wayne,
I did the same upgrade. XP2400+. Strapped a $8.99 CoolerMaster HSF and mine runs @ 37C. Seems no matter what I do temp stays put, +/- 2 degrees. I use SpeedFan for temp. 1 exhaust and 1 side panel intake fans. 55C is within reason but my old T-Bird ran @ 50C.

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Feb 14, 2004 12:26PM PST

AMDs do to tend to run warm. I just hate it when people measure temperature in Celsius rather than in Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit is more accurate than Celsius due the more graduations over a given temperature spread.

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Fine!
Feb 14, 2004 12:37PM PST

My CPU runs @ 98-101F. BETTER?

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Feb 14, 2004 12:58PM PST

Thanks all. I'm more comfortable with F also, but I put them both here for clarification.