Athlon-fx 60 running hot? Cooler not working?

[tamerax]

Hi

I have an athlon fx-60 running on an Asus A8N32-SLI deluxe with 4 gigs of ram. I'm using a Kingwin aquastar liquid cooling system on my cpu. I'm also using the proper amount of Artic Silver 5.

Now, my idel temp seems to be around 44-47(celcious) and under load it can jump over 62. It hit 68 at one point. I'm using prime95 and sandra's burn-in process to test its load.

My room's temp is around 23.

Now...It seems like these are really high to me and I can't figure out if its my mobo not working (this would be the second one sent to me. I had to RMA it already...grrrrrr) or my liquid cooling system or something else.

Any ideas or advice?

Thanks for your help!

[casecutter]

No offense, but that water cooling system is hardly up to cooling the heat produced by a dual core CPU. The stock air cooler could probably cool it better. Time to invest in a nice high end water cooling loop to get those temps in control.

[Yawgm0th]

I'd recommend you just switch to the stock cooler, with those temps. If you enable Cool & Quiet, it'll shouldn't be any noisier than that setup, and will definitely cool better.

At the very least, switch to a real watercooling system. There are maybe two or three good kits on the market. The rest are crap. I prefer air myself, regardless of the monetary concerns, but I could see using water on a high-end system like that.

[tamerax]

Originally Posted by Yawgm0th

At the very least, switch to a real watercooling system. There are maybe two or three good kits on the market. The rest are crap. I prefer air myself, regardless of the monetary concerns, but I could see using water on a high-end system like that.

Can u recommend a good kit?

[Yawgm0th]

No. Darth can.

[matm347]

Originally Posted by tamerax

Can u recommend a good kit?

The H20-220 APEX ULTRA from swiftech (swiftnets.com) is a good system and can be easily expanded with GPU blocks later if you want, or the H20-220 APEX ULTRA+ comes with GPU and MB blocks(not needed on the A8N32-SLI).
You could also piece one together using the same pump/CPU block using your own radiator/hose and just use a T fitting to fill it up.