7C drop in CPU TEMPS!!! with a little mod.

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7C drop in CPU TEMPS!!! with a little mod.

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Ever touch the the back of the Mboard behind the cpu? OUCH! I took out theMboard and did some measuring where the cpu sat and Cut out a 60mm square in the Mboard Tray and then a 60mm hole in the side of the case. Attached a 60mm Y's tech blowing In onto the back of the socket. I had No idea I would get such a Drop in the temps. Under full load it dropped from 49C to 42C. Talk about awsome! Very quiet and an easy mod. everyone should do it.

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Cool is that the same PC from your "My hot PC " thread?
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no that one is next. this one was My pc....which was stupid...you should always Practice one a backup and I Really should have. Doh well.

Granted these temps are based of a thermal probe Under the cpu but any cooling is good cooling I say.

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This has been discovered before, lookie here .
But overclockers did dig deeper than just the plain fact as can be seen here and here .
I think this one really hits the point:
Use the in-socket thermistor as your fire alarm - don't expect much more than that.


There are more articles about the inaccurate and rather unreliable readings of the onboard temp-probe ... it's a sad thing that AMD had no in-CPU-temp reading like the PIII (now included in Palomino's, erh, Athlon 4's). The only reliable source for temp-reading is a probe directly at the core ...

I do use my in-socket thermistor with MBM 5 , set at 50C to forced shutdown.
Welp, I wouldn't say it won't help but I can't say it helps a lot ...
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Eithor way this is Cooling Something....be it the Air behnd the cpu, the socket its self, the back of the cpu o what ever...It is COOLING something that is Normally Really hot....I call it a sucess.

+ I dont remember saying i Discovered it...I said I did it. :)

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