Overclocking Atholon 1.2
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That's pretty high at 136 F (58 C) at idle. My Athlon 1.9 overclocked to 2.0 (actually a bit faster) runs at 39-40 C (102-104 F) at idle, and 50 C (122 F) if I'm running something stresing, like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, or using WinRAR to compress files at highest compression. For your temperature at 1.3, I'd either get a better heat sink/fan combo, or first, open the case and see if the temp goes down. If it does, get a higher flow case fan, or add another one (or both). For comparison, if you know your motherboard temp, mine runs at 31 C idle. If it was me, I wouldn't run your system any higher without better cooling. Even your non-overclocked idle temp is higher than my system overclocked and stressed.
Hope I got the temp convesions right.
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Hope I got the temp convesions right.
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What I use, is MBM5
h**p://mbm.livewiredev.com/
Whoo-hoo!
New look at the site, and a new version.
AND a working Sidebar link to MBPROBE - which some people prefer to MBM5
You do need to cross-chech with BIOS hardware monitoring - as (for instance, I needed a 10C coorection to match them up - assuming the BIOS to be authoritative!)
What you're measuring, is normally the probe sensor on the underside of the CPU - some people like to dab a little heatsink paste on it before installing the CPU, to improve the contact
h**p://mbm.livewiredev.com/
Whoo-hoo!
New look at the site, and a new version.
AND a working Sidebar link to MBPROBE - which some people prefer to MBM5
You do need to cross-chech with BIOS hardware monitoring - as (for instance, I needed a 10C coorection to match them up - assuming the BIOS to be authoritative!)
What you're measuring, is normally the probe sensor on the underside of the CPU - some people like to dab a little heatsink paste on it before installing the CPU, to improve the contact
MBM is a fine proggy. If you check-up on the wpcredit info for your mobo, you may be able to turn on limited idle-chip cooling capacity for your 1.2 gig. See forums at amdmb.com
One other.....
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
If your motherboard is wired for it, and if your chipset is supported for it, SpeedFan can not only MONITOR temperatures - but can also vary fan speeds in response (don't go TOO mad, especially on the CPU fan).
You can tally which fans will respond to which temperatures, so the CPU can be made to call on them ALL, with case temp calling only for case fan speed increase.
sadly, variable fan speed is VERY poorly implemented - a good many motherboards/chipsets which COULD do it, just don't have the feature implemented.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
If your motherboard is wired for it, and if your chipset is supported for it, SpeedFan can not only MONITOR temperatures - but can also vary fan speeds in response (don't go TOO mad, especially on the CPU fan).
You can tally which fans will respond to which temperatures, so the CPU can be made to call on them ALL, with case temp calling only for case fan speed increase.
sadly, variable fan speed is VERY poorly implemented - a good many motherboards/chipsets which COULD do it, just don't have the feature implemented.
I got a Tbird 1.2 133FSB. Overclocking on the FSB gave stability problems with my ATI radeon 8500. So I overclocked it using the processor stepping. Now runs at 1.4Ghz no problems. Temp is about 50-60oC which is normal for Athlons, especially the older Tbirds which do run quite hot and are quite happy doing that.
