AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+

[tonkin97]

was round my friends the other day showing off my new nd-h14 and explaining the story of why i got it, my quad core was going close to 60c so i wanted better cooling for when i overclock it

he has a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHz Dual Core Processor, and for a laugh i installed hwmonitor to find his temps of his computer.

i nearly died his cpu was running at 93c and idled at 79c.

he bought it when amd2 sockets first came out and i have one too in my old system and that has a steady temp of 55c whilst overclocked.

is he lucky to have a cpu that can handle that temperature? and its been running like that for the past 2 years, his computer has always been that warm.

 

[dhicks001]

More likely to be faulty readouts than high temps. AMD chips more or less crash at 65'C.

 

[KaraMurat]

lol most likely a faulty read as dhicks stated, did you take off the side panel to see if it was covered in a duvet of dust

 

[dugdiamond]

or... the people who made it, did not use thermal paste and/or mounted the cooler badly

 

[tonkin97]

i would do more for it but its my mates and he knows i love overclocking and he wont let me touch it, burns my skin when i touch the heatsink, it looked dust free, but i noticed the northbridge right next to it, gigabyte rog board, i dont know the full specs but that was just as hot and it was a tall heat sink. he said its been like that for the past 2 years so i will leave it lol

 

[dugdiamond]

cool

i remember walking into PCworld about 5yrs ago, before i serious started building PCs for people, and asked a member of staff for some thermal paste. he said " go and ask tony... he's our tech guy and build all our systems"

so i waited for tony at the customer repair service counter.

he appeared. "have you got any good thermal paste?", i asked him.

"thermal paste!", he replied, "we don't use that here. if the heatsink is mounted properly, you don't need it"

i have never gone to PCworld again, and advise all my friends and customers to stay well clear of them. i wonder how many other large PC retailers think the same as tony!!

 

[Lollipop]

cool

i remember walking into PCworld about 5yrs ago, before i serious started building PCs for people, and asked a member of staff for some thermal paste. he said " go and ask tony... he's our tech guy and build all our systems"

so i waited for tony at the customer repair service counter.

he appeared. "have you got any good thermal paste?", i asked him.

"thermal paste!", he replied, "we don't use that here. if the heatsink is mounted properly, you don't need it"

i have never gone to PCworld again, and advise all my friends and customers to stay well clear of them. i wonder how many other large PC retailers think the same as tony!!

HAHA!!! Made me rofl

 

[nothingspecial]

cool

i remember walking into PCworld about 5yrs ago, before i serious started building PCs for people, and asked a member of staff for some thermal paste. he said " go and ask tony... he's our tech guy and build all our systems"

so i waited for tony at the customer repair service counter.

he appeared. "have you got any good thermal paste?", i asked him.

"thermal paste!", he replied, "we don't use that here. if the heatsink is mounted properly, you don't need it"

i have never gone to PCworld again, and advise all my friends and customers to stay well clear of them. i wonder how many other large PC retailers think the same as tony!!

My only hope is that they were using heatsinks with pre-applied paste

FWIW, they do have a little section with a couple of cases (Antec or cheap unbranded) and some heatsinks/paste/cables now, but still isn't great. Could be helpful in emergencies.

 

[wotevajjjj]

I had a similar experience some time ago. I was done overclocking a rig for someone so i benched it and it was all great. But than i tought, what would my parents pc do ?

It'sa 4 year old hp, never been cleaned out and the results were shocking aswell. 83.4°c when runing wprime on an athlon x64 dual core at 2.6ghz.

I just turned it off, deleted wprime and hwbot than acted like nothing ever happened lol

 

[tonkin97]

since ive been messing around with hwmonitor, i play eve online and the guys i play with ive been telling them about it.

the ammount of people after discovering there temps went out and bought a aftermarket cooler is unreal, i fitted 2 this week one frio and a small noctua.

pc world will never deal with them, i remember when they charge 150 quid to upgrade your ram slightly and they used the cheap stuff. (now im my dads personal computer enginear)