The new opty is HOT

Just got my new opteron 165 and man is it hot.



Ive got a zalman cnps 9500 and artic ceramic paste on it and it idles at around 44 - 50 C and gets up to about 58 C after 30 mins of a stress test, this is at stock speeds and also at 2.52 GHz with stock voltage, i added another 40 Mv and it went over 60 C, everest doesnt go higher than 60 C so it could have been high 60's or 70 C .



Im going to keep it at 2.52 GHz on stock voltage until i can figure out what im going to do



im hoping the thermal burn in time drops it signifcantly.



What do you guys suggest, is this normal for an opteron?



Also, core temp, speed fan and pc wizard all read the core temps as being quite low, in the 30 C's at idle, but speed fan, everest and pc wizard read the CPU temp as being about 10 C hotter than the core temps, the BIOS also reads around 46 - 50 C.



Why is there so much difference in core temp to CPU temps?



Thanks

You used ceramic instead of AS-5 with silver particles for one. That would offer the improved heat transfer into the Zalman. AS-5 sees an average of a 200hr. breakin time. You may applied too much of the ceramic type paste there as well.

I applied the right amount, ive done it loads before, im going to apply some AC5 once my friends build is done if its still high

Certain Toledo core chips are just hot, mine for example. It sucks, but there's not much you can do, besides 60*c load isn't hot enough to do any damage. Running it 24/7 like that will obviously show some detrimental effects in a couple years, but why worry about that now?

i dont understand why the core temps read so low compared to the cpu temp tho

Core temps are what you look at to be certain. That the cpu temp shows a hotter temp than the core temps probably means sensor malfunction, or something. CPU temp should never be that much hotter than the core temps, it's almost impossible, take it as a fluke.

My friend has a Opteron, he said he cools his with a cooler with a lot of heatpipes. I overclocked his from 1.8ghz to 2.5ghz. He has to use case fans like 2 or 3.

Even the BIOS says the cpu temp is high too tho

The newer line of AMD models 939s, 940s, AM2 now see a temp thresholh of about 60-70C max. Temp #2 on SpeedFan is not the core but the board temp. Originally it was written for single core cpus to see that, the board, and hard drive temps. With good cooling inplace the #2 temp should be lower then the cpu temp(#1).

Not to be rude and i appreciate the help, but i know how to read speedfan