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Thursday, 17 January 2008
Funny thing about CPUs...
Condescending Linux user

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition doesn't come with a heatsink/fan, which was news to me. "Well, I'll order one, and while I wait for it, I'll use the existing fan," I said.

Apparently, it runs just a teensy bit hotter than an Athlon 64 3800+. The 3800+ runs around 45°C. I hadn't even finished booting the computer before the motherboard started beeping at me: the CPU had already hit 80°C.

So it's back to the older, slower, single-core CPU until I get an appropriate HSF.


Posted by godfrey (link)
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It happens that way. The HSF on my Core 2 Quad is substantially larger than the one on my old Socket 478 P4.
Posted by aeddie on 17 Jan 2008 20:44
Apparently I also just have a truly crappy HSF on the 3800+. My Windows box is running an Athlon 64 X2 4100+, and when just doing normal work (e.g. surfing the Internets) it runs around 28.5°C. Playing something like Half-Life 2 pulls it up to around 41°C - still lower than the 3800+'s idling temperature. And there aren't even any copper pipes in the heatsink....

Posted by Godfrey on 18 Jan 2008 10:02