Temp for a xp-m 2500+ on an A7V400-MX

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I recently installed a XP-M 2500+ on an A7V400-MX and it runs fine at
166Mhz. I am using cpumsr to adjust the multipler on the fly. When the
multipler set to 6x, the idle temp is in the high 50 degree C. Whne I
set the mult. to 14, the temp is around 63~64. Readings are taken wtih
Asus probe. Are these values resonable? One last thing, vcore is 1.55
and I can't adjust it with CPUMSR.

 

[donny]

thats a bit hi should be in the 40s put new paste on the heatssink try less
paste i did and my temperateure came down about 5 degrees

 

[Ed]

thats a bit hi should be in the 40s put new paste on the heatssink try less
paste i did and my temperateure came down about 5 degrees

Ya less paste makes a difference, I learned that on my 1.2GHz AMD, I was
able to OC it another 50MHz too.

On my Barton I dropped 10C @ full loads by applying paste using a thin
plastic bag stretched over my index finger, I just dab the paste on the
core so it's ultra thin and you can see right through it.

Another way to lower temps ( @ low usage/idle) is to turn on what I call
the cool-bit with software, most AMD Socket-A boards BIOS have this
disabled and/or hidden, reason being some AMD chips had an errata for
this feature. You can enable the cool-bit feature on some VIA chipset
boards using a program called Vcool or Speed Fan for NF2 boards (or
manually using WCPCREDIT). My CPU die temps dropped 10C @ idle on 4 of
my systems without any stability issues at all, but they still don't run
as cool as my AMD 64. ;P

Ed