P5ND2-SLI Deluxe and Intel P4 3.6GHz (660)

[Leigh-Anne Mills]

Hiya

Just installed a P5ND2-SLI Deluxe and Intel P4 3.6GHz (660), with stock intel fan, when the system is at idel the fan runs at 3515rpm. Is there any way to make the fan run slower. Anyone else got the same problem.

Running Probe 1, as i hate the New Probe 2.

Leigh-Anne

 

[Tony Rae]

Hiya

Just installed a P5ND2-SLI Deluxe and Intel P4 3.6GHz (660), with stock intel fan, when the system is at idel the fan runs at 3515rpm. Is there any way to make the fan run slower. Anyone else got the same problem.

Running Probe 1, as i hate the New Probe 2.

I've got a P4 3.2GHz (640) and with the stock fan it also runs at
about that speed. Annoying eh.
My case has a fan built into the side wall that faces the CPU and with
that on the CPU fan spins at about 2400rpm. Much better.
Still too hot it seems as this CPU is running slower than my older P4
2.8GHz.

 

[Frobinrobin]

These new CPU's (as well as the Athlon64s) run heaps hotter than old
processors and therefore need better cooling - I noticed this when I
brought my Athlon FX51 - I immediately ordered a CoolerMaster Hiper6
which was a monster size HSF (it's size was beacuse it works on
heatpipe technology - google it if you dont know)
With this heatsink was a variable fan control - so I can turn the fan
up and down with a knob :¬) This type of HSF is great - it reduced my
temp by at least 10c so I've brought a couple more types of HSF.

If you dont wanna spend too much then buy a fan controller (it will fit
connect between your current HSF and MoBo and alllow you to adjust the
fan speed like I do) personally I am buying the Thermaltake Hardcano
which monitors/adjusts upto 4 fans and is only about £20 - it will
sort out the 3x120mm and 92mm fans in my coolermaster Stacker case
which all run at top speed currently.

BTW: I wouldn't recommend the Asus Star Ice HSF with the P5ND2sli - I
had to cut part of the metal retaining bracket on the HSF in order to
fit it - one of the passive HeatSinks on the P5ND2 (the silver one nr
the IO plate) prevented a normal fit - which p***ed me off as they are
both Asus products! Anyway - stay away from the Star Ice - Its
extremely loud (mine even whistles when I set the speed too low!!!
annoying¬!)

I also purchase a gigabyte HSF with heatpipes (the round hollow multi
cpu one) - although it fitted with no problem, I really didnt think
much of the performance.

At 3.4Ghz I'd get a decent HSF [I managed to O/C my 3Ghz 630 CPU to
4Ghz :¬)

Also, to say that these systems dont perform well is kinda true - my
Athlon64 FX51 outbenches my 3Ghz 630! and I was really expecting a lot
of wow factor in this new MoBo - so I made some config changes to up
the ante:
- In the bios - disable the Intel LAN - use the nVidia one as it has
built in firewall :¬) how frikken cool huh?
- If you have sataii disks they will only be beneficial in a RAID
STRIPE (RAID 0) 97MB/s Average & 277!MB/s Burst (2x Hitachi 72k0
sataii 80GB)
- Depending on your memory will depend on the settings for RAM but by
setting the memory timings you can get the most out of your DDR2.
- With my Corsair DDR@675Mhz 4-4-4-12 1T RAM - it auto sets to
4-5-5-15 2T which is less performance.
- I'm still trying to work out the FSB on this MoBo as CPUz has some
bugs but I've heard it may help running the RAM at 533Mhz - anyway
until I can get a decent tool to work it all out (and everest is cack
with this) I cant work out my changes (I agree Probe2 sucks) so
hopefully I can post some better BIOS config when I know - I swear that
I'm missing some performance still.

Also (and lastly I swear!) I installed Windows XP 64bit last night and
to be honest this really is where all this new hardware lies... with
the default XP installation you get 32 and 64 bit versions of Internet
Explorer and you can easily see the difference in speed. 3-4seconds to
load the 32bit ver and 1 second to laod the 64bit ver (an average
estimate of course)

I cant wait for Windows Longhorn - a 64bit O/S with a DataBase based
filesystem will eat Macs and Unix boxes for brekkie - let's hope that
M.S. dont let me down (just me mind;¬) like I was let down with my
system's single sataii disk config and my corsair DDR
675Mhz(unconfirmed).

 

[Leigh-Anne Mills]

I have made a few changes today, replaced the fan on the side case to a
Coolermaster SAF-S82, and have it sucking air in, but have installed a
filter to stop the dust. The Coolermaster SAF-S82 runs 500 rpm more than my
orginal fan, but the results are as follows:-

Intel P4 3.6GHz (660), with stock fan, FULL load, CPU temp is 141F and Mobo
95F, but the intel fan is down from 3515rpm to 2678rpm.

With NO load CPU temp is 107F and Mobo is 93F, intel fan 2445rpm.

Nice to have very low fan noise. Still thinking of putting a Coolermaster
HYPER48 on the CPU.

LA