> I am having a bit of a heat problem with my first time new home
> built system and I am
> hoping that some of the more experienced readers of these
> postings can help me.
>  My system is a 1.33 athlon with a soyo dragon mb.Cooling is by
> coolermaster
> dp5-6131c cooler that came with the processor.While I know it is
> not the best
> it was on AMD's approved list.The mb came with Smartguardian
> system monitor
> that checks system voltages as well as fan speeds,case temps and cpu temp.
> What has me puzzled is that when playing a game my cpu temps can
> be as high as
> 54C ,when in power down mode(hard drive power down in bios) it
> can be 38C,but
>  when I'm on the internet or word processing it builds as
> high as 62C.This seems a bit backwards to me. I used Arctic
> Silver 3 and thought
> that I had a thin enough coating of it.There is a front case
> fan,power supply fan
> chipset fan, and processor fan.The chassis temps show as high as
> 40C when at its
> hottest.
> I hope this is enough info.
> Thank you in advance

        I'm not quite sure what the problem is. While 62 degrees is on the higher
side, it's what mine is at (well that's a lie, it's actually at 59 degrees,
but that's close enough), and that is with AMDs retail fan and heatsink. Is
there any particular reason you need it cooler (overclocking perhaps?).
Thanks, TTYL

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