Temperatures on MSI KT6 Delta (VIA KT600)

Hello;

I own above-mentioned motherboard with Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton, 1833
MHz). My problem refers to temperatures. Indicator on CPU shows 51-53
Celsius degrees, and while gaming - even 60-65 degrees (cooler Pentagram
Freezone 80CU). But what disturbs me more, is northbridge temperature -
on average it is 45-47 degrees, and while gaming - even 53-55 degrees. I
have a motherboard version only with northbridge radiator, but without a
cooler. I installed coolers in the case (one sucking air in, and the
other one - exhausting), but it did not change the situation much. I
replaced original, wide IDE and FDD cables with thin, round ones, but it
also did not change much. Radiators are very warm, which means that they
receive heat from the chips.

I have a question - shuld I worry about that? My system still works
fine, it did not freeze even once, but I am a little anxious.

I'd be grateful for any help.

Krzysiek

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:29:34 +0200, KED
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>I have a question - shuld I worry about that? My system still works
>fine, it did not freeze even once, but I am a little anxious.

do not worry; see my temp @ my site under comp/benches .. :-)
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05 Apr 2005 08:29 UTC, KED typed:
> I own above-mentioned motherboard with Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton, 1833
> MHz). My problem refers to temperatures. Indicator on CPU shows 51-53
> Celsius degrees, and while gaming - even 60-65 degrees (cooler Pentagram
> Freezone 80CU).

I have the same processor (retail inc. fan) on a different board. With the
phase change crap that was pre-applied, 56C was normal when doing nothing,
68C when under load (99%). No instability or problems but I couldn't
resist cleaning the heatsink and using normal lithium heatsink compound.
Temps are now 45C with no load and 50C fully loaded. With a cooler program,
athcool, idle temp drops to 34C.

Oddly increasing the size and power of the exhaust fan actually increased
the CPU temperature, presumably because cooling air was being drawn away
before it reached the CPU.

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