weird sounds

[HARRY]

hi guys ive had my prommie on for about 48h solid and its starting to make a few funny noises .its asif im just turning it on u know when the compresser rumbles abit ,the temps are fine and the overclock is good . do u think its owt to worry about

cheers

 

[GoLLuM4444]

Often when the compressor vibrates it hits against the side panel (at least it does with the enlight panels). See if you can tighten up the compressor's feet.

On the subject of weird noises one of mine makes a sort of whistling noise when it's cooling to boot temp. Otherwise it works totally normally. Odd.

 

[HARRY]

wistling is nothing mate .mine whistels oh danny boy

 

[GoLLuM4444]

wistling is nothing mate .mine whistels oh danny boy

Glad it's not just me.

My other one doesn't though.

 

[HARRY]

mine does it on and off mate its just one of them things ,

i know whats up wi mine i unscrewed the side and it cut off checked the plug and it fas faulty so i think the voltage was fluctuating

 

[GoLLuM4444]

mine does it on and off mate its just one of them things ,

i know whats up wi mine i unscrewed the side and it cut off checked the plug and it fas faulty so i think the voltage was fluctuating

That would make sense if it sounded like it were cutting out and starting. Hope you fix it easily.

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

The whistling is perfectly normal - it actually suggests you have an excellent system there. At idle/powering up you hear the noise most, its because the compressor wants to do more than the heatload will allow. Thats why its best under load. In other words, overclock it some more

 

[GoLLuM4444]

The whistling is perfectly normal - it actually suggests you have an excellent system there. At idle/powering up you hear the noise most, its because the compressor wants to do more than the heatload will allow. Thats why its best under load. In other words, overclock it some more

Glad to hear it from "Uncle Phil". Wish my A8N would give me more but it's limited to a crummy 1.66V Vcore and the Vdimm mod seems to have made little difference to memory overclock .

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Glad to hear it from "Uncle Phil". Wish my A8N would give me more but it's limited to a crummy 1.66V Vcore and the Vdimm mod seems to have made little difference to memory overclock .

Get yourself a DFI NF4 mate, 2v on the vcore and 4 on the vdimm. The best boards ever.

 

[Firelord]

Give the poor mach some stick

Get an FX55 and DFI to really make some heat

 

[GoLLuM4444]

Already got the fx55, trying to get a dfi board.

 

[hardw1re]

Hey, talking about overclocking. Does anyone know a good website or tutorial for overclocking the AMD 64's? ie, what voltages to change to, what speeds etc. Because the whole overclocking thing has always bothered me, i've never gone ahead and done it as i am unsure what sort of speeds / voltages i should be using for my system.

Thanks

 

[fatty]

If you tell us your spec we may be able to help you out

 

[hardw1re]

AMD 64 3000+ NewCastle, Gainward 6800 GT, 2 x 512MB Corsair 3200, (dont know if any of this is relavent but heres the other components inside: Seagate Barricuda 200GB S-ATA, IBM Deskstar 170GB IDE, Audigy 2 ZS, Pioneer 109 DVD+-RW, Samsung SM352-B CD-RW/DVD-ROM. And i have just installed a Ryanpower 2 PSU). I dont know if you've read any of my other posts recently but i also have a situation with the Mach2 GT controller.if you read my other posts (there in the Mach 2 section of the forum).Is it because my unit is currently running R134a refrigent, that my cpu temps sit between 11 and 25 degree's C ? i am waiting for phil to send me up some dialetic grease so i can rebuild the evaporator around the cpu to see if i can make things cool better.

- Update -

i have just got back from uni, and my pc sits on my desk, and it just clunked at me, reading back on this post i think someone made a comment on this meaning the compressor can still do alot more workload or something. is that right? or was it that the compressor wasnt screwed tight enough to the bottom of the case?

- update -

/me slaps fatty.

- update -

Ok, i am using a perspex case, in which case where the back of the motherboard is, where the back plate with the thermosensor in for the mach II head, since putting in the new controller yesterday, and well putting a cable tie on the tube just to stop the see-thru plastic thingy (shrowd? or summit) from thraying i have noticed that the back panel - the one mention at the begining of this paragraph has been extremely cold - it use to get quite warm, if its cold thats a good sign right? btw, for a Mach II ST running a GT controller i am getting -50 degree's C on the evap head with 100% load on the cpu!! i take it thats good too???