Next cooling suggestion?

[IAIHMB]

Does anyone have any ideas on how I could cool my CPU down? I've already:
-Bought a Antec 1000AMG case.
-Installed 2 out of 3 optional case fans.
I'm running out of ideas, I seem to have alot of fans:
-2 80MM Antec exhaust fans at the back of my case.
-1 80MM Arctic Cooling exhaust fan mounted on the front of the case backwards.
-1 80MM Arctic Cooling exhaust fan mounted on my side panel backwards.
-1 intake fan on my Antec TruePower 430W power supply.
-1 exhaust fan on my Antec TruePower 430W power supply.
-1 Fan on my PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800 XT video card (which by the way still doesn't work with Doom 3. )
My house temperature is about 70 degrees fahrenheit , but my CPU is idleing at about 50 degrees celsius now. A few questions I have:
-My heatsink is that part that is labled ASUS right?

-If that is my heatsink, would I need to replace my heatsink to have a heatsink fan?

Thanks for any advice, this is really starting to annoy me.

[Cobra]

-My heatsink is that part that is labled ASUS right?

No, that is Northbridge. That connects the CPU to RAM and the AGP slot, and Southbridge. That is the chip to the bottom-right of the battery. That connects PCI, hard drives, optical drives, USB/IEEE1394, SATA, audio and all the rest of it to Northbridge (and therefore the CPU).

That white socket to the right of Northbridge is for the CPU, and your heatsink will clip/screw onto that, around the black guide.

Intel reference heatsinks are very good, and you'll be looking at spending about £30 - £40 to beat them.

I would reccommend the use of some good thermal paste such as Arctic Silver to ensure good thermal conductivity. Also, you could lap (polish with sandpaper) your heatsink - not to a mirror polish but so all the big grooves are gone.

Finally, my CPU idles at 52 deg C and peaks at 66 deg C. It is an AMD Athlon XP2500+ Mobile chip taken from 1.83GHz (FSB166 x 11) to 2.33GHz (FSB202 x 11.5). I use a Coolermaster Aero7+ - this cools it very nicely in comparison to the AMD reference heatsink. You could try the Aero 4+ (P4 version of the 7+).

Hope this mess of information makes sense!

Cobra

EDIT - Take a look inside my machine:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bs3jf/03%20-%20CPU%20Cooling.htm

[IAIHMB]

Eh, thanks for the advice. It looks like I will be buying a new heatsink sooner or later, the damn PC mechanic has seen my computer more than I have in the last 2 weeks.

[alsyed]

You could also try to use a cpu cooling program to put your cpu in a forced idle loop. I use CPUIdle, google that. I idle between 25 and 35 celsius, with maximum 50 celsisu, thats a athlon xp2100+

You don't notice any performance hit, because the program only takes the cpu cycles that are not doing anything. It certainly has cooled my system down from 50 C idle, and 65 plus full load

[JSB]

Have you felt how hot the ATI Radeon 9800 XT gets?

My 9800Pro is like an Easy bake Oven inside my case.... so i opted for an Artic Cooling VGA Silencer

I you go this route make sure you get the XT Artic Cooler and not the older version that will NOT fit the XT line.

This system will take most of the heat from your XT and expell it outside of you case!

JSB

[rallynavvie]

Swiftech heatsinks are some of the best. They're a bit pricey but they are fantastic. I put two in my current workstation and the CPU temps (with ambient of ~25°C) idle at 36°C and load at 54°C (peak). These are non-Precott Intel procs so they don't have the heat issues that the older Athlon chips and Prescott Pentiums have, but it's still really good. I have Thermalright SK-7s on my other workstation with Athlons in it and that one idles around 40°C and loads at 62°C. Both workstations have 80mm fans on top of the heatsinks. I recommend something with about 25-30 CFM flow. Vantec Stealth fans are awesome, but I use Panaflow medium speed fans just for the extra airflow. If you have a fan controller onboard then all the better as it'll only crank up your fans when they're needed.

[mujahid7ia]

You could also try to use a cpu cooling program to put your cpu in a forced idle loop. I use CPUIdle, google that. I idle between 25 and 35 celsius, with maximum 50 celsisu, thats a athlon xp2100+

You don't notice any performance hit, because the program only takes the cpu cycles that are not doing anything. It certainly has cooled my system down from 50 C idle, and 65 plus full load

For your nForce2 board, there's an even better solution: http://forum.msi.com.tw/thread.php?threadid=61118