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Chris James
I have a Gigabyte GA 7VT600 mainboard with an Athlon 2600 chip .
With clock ratio on Auto it was showing Host Frequency of 166 . But
the machine was cutting out a lot and the CPU temp measured 75 degrees .
The booklet suggests around 35 degrees to be OK -- ish .
So I turned off Auto and set the clock to 100 . Now the temp is down to
65 degrees . and the box runs ok .
Windows XP system reports CPU speed as 1.26 GHz ... not very impressive
for my 2600 chip ... uh ?
Any comments or suggestions very welcome .
In operation , the heatsink is cool to the touch .
I tried another heatsink ... much the same results .
I would have thought it's in pretty serious contact with the chip . But I
have come across heatsinks which are on much stronger 'springs ' .
Chris
With clock ratio on Auto it was showing Host Frequency of 166 . But
the machine was cutting out a lot and the CPU temp measured 75 degrees .
The booklet suggests around 35 degrees to be OK -- ish .
So I turned off Auto and set the clock to 100 . Now the temp is down to
65 degrees . and the box runs ok .
Windows XP system reports CPU speed as 1.26 GHz ... not very impressive
for my 2600 chip ... uh ?
Any comments or suggestions very welcome .
In operation , the heatsink is cool to the touch .
I tried another heatsink ... much the same results .
I would have thought it's in pretty serious contact with the chip . But I
have come across heatsinks which are on much stronger 'springs ' .
Chris