CPU Temp

[predatowned]

I just wanted to know the general/normal range of temps P4's reach. Mine is 2.4 533mhz fsb, and it seems to get pretty hot. I took a pic of my computer's current temp. gets up to about 50C after a video game, and stays in the upper 30's when idle. I uploaded a pic of my current temps... Also, the fan speed is kind of hard to read in the pic, but it says... 3013rpm

BTW, what are some good P4 heatsinks? i think mine is fairly cheap, and is simply not cooling it the way it should be...

thanks

 

[The Dark Elf]

About the same here, though AMD not Intel. The cpu fan on this machine runs at around 5000rpm, the ones on the others are in the upper 3000's.. new machines, new fans etc. Sucks here on a warm day. Bring on this ice age the penatgon said we'd get (if anyone believed that heh)

 

[predatowned]

lol, i hear ya. gets hot as hell in my room, and i live in texas. so you can imagen how hot it gets with my comp on...

 

[psyno]

I'm idling right now with 33/29 CPU/MB. I consider that to be a tad higher than I'd like, but decent. Room temperatures is about 21 C, so you can see how that's actually not that cold.

If you want to monitor your temps instead of running Aida every time, I would recommend Motherboard Monitor 5. As far as coolers go, I'm very attracted to the Zalman ones, but I don't have one. Quiet and efficient.

Btw, what's the ambient temperature where you are?

 

[PvtRyan]

Mine is almost always in the upper fifties. It's not gonna live long like that, but hell I'm not planning to last longer with cpu's than 1-2 years.
It gets that hot because it's oc'ed from 1,4 GHz to 2,17 (T-bred B JIUHB). I've got an Aero 7 Lite to cool it, runs at 2500 rpm.
I'll probably have stability problems in the summer, better get a new fan, altough this one was very cheap (15 euro's) and for it's price extremely good.

 

[Maxi]

Thats a good temp if you're using a stock heatsink, and it's perfectly fine if you're not overclocking, but if you want to overclock then you'll need a better heatsink, one of those cost around 50$.

 

[predatowned]

ok, thanks guys.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

My barton 2600+ dies b/c of over heating I won't care 3 year warrenty

Plus its barely over 100mhz O/C'd so it should be straight.

 

[RandomPING]

Well you do know that an OC voids the warrenty right Disturbed? Even though it's really small it still is like breaking that cherry. Once it's broken, your processor is no longer a virgin... or something, you know what i mean.

That slutty processor...

 

[Asus]

Also using silver (metal based) thermal paste voids it too.

 

[Pathogen]

LOL, i almost died laughing after i read what RandomPING wrote. your cpu sounds like its running cool. im stuck with my athlon 1.4Ghz till may and it gets past 70 degress celcius after a 12 hour lan party. im suprised its still alive and kicking lol