Temperature Zone

[fidox]

hi there !

i'm searching and searching but can't find, so i'll try to ask here ;
i have installed Intel Active Monitor to see what temperature i have , so,
there's ;
Processor Zone
System Zone 1
System Zone 2

now i'm not sure which area of computer is system zone 1 and zone 2,
while system zone 1 is normal temp. (about 36-40C)
but system zone 2 is normal 39C , when i start game or similar raises very high up to 55C, so is this chipset temperature or power supply ?
i have 550W gold super-silent power supply,
i have added extra fan to chipset chip,
but temperature shows the same,
are those temperatures in active monitor real ?

what should i check ?
which temperature is for System Zone 2 ?

somebody can help me maybe ?



thanks


matej

[ChrisWerner]

This is an answer from Intel:

Processor Zone is monitoring the Pentium 4 processor

System Temperature is being monitored by an on board component

If only one fan has a tachometer it will be displayed as Fan 1

The CPU Fan tach signal is displayed as Fan 2 if the rear chassis tach fan is also connected

The rear chassis fan is monitoring the tach signal and is displayed as Fan 1

The front chassis fan, if installed, is not monitoring the tach signal and is not displayed

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They were not too specific on where the zones were on your motherboard, because they are all different. Basically where a fan is, that is a zone, so if you want to know where the zones are on your motherboard, look for the fan connections.

I hope this helps you a bit, if you want more specific answers, send a system info file to Intel support.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ChrisWerner on 2004-06-19 09:51 ]</font>

[astroman]

On 2004-06-19 08:28, fidox wrote:
...but system zone 2 is normal 39C , when i start game or similar raises very high up to 55C, so is this chipset temperature or power supply ?...

I assume you refer to state of the art 3-D gaming. In that case both CPU and graph processor run at full load, hence the temperature rise around those chips.

A regular 'office use' is probably only 10% in comparison and that's what most systems are designed for by default.
I wouldn't consider this a dangerous level, since you probably spend more time with musical applications and then the heat of the graph card will be much lower.

cheers, Tom

[jea]

It's probably the voltage regulator area.

[fidox]

well, i was asking that because i have sometimes freezing problems and i thought that's because of temperature, but...
first;
when i was making music, cubase + sfp comp.freezes , not always...
then few days ago, when i was playing one 3-d game, also freezes after , let me say 30min of playing,
first i thought it's midi or audio problem, that i have some conflict or because of USB controller, but now happens also in games, so it must be something other....
i have installed winXP many times so far, but always happens the same thing,
could this be hardware problem , or maybe software ?
i have all newest driver installed, BIOS updated, everything,
maybe USB cause problems ?
or HT enabled or anything else , could be this connected somehow with temperature and intel active monitor, maybe this program freezes comp. after temperature raises ?

maybe , maybe no, i must go


matej

[astroman]

well, temperature is always suspectable if your system seems to hang unmotivated and thermal design of most cases just s*cks.

You might apply a fan at the back of your case so it shovels hot air from inside out.
Use one with a large diameter and add a speed regulator (about 10 Euro) so it doesn't annoy unncessarily
You could even mount it outside if there's no room in the case itself - it will reliably reduce the 55 degrees, which may indeed trigger a safety procedure (afaik Intels suggests 45 max) bringing your software out of sync.

cheers, Tom