normal 2600+ temps

[jonnyapps]

what are normal athlon cpu temps?

hi, i FINALLY bought and installed my first rig. It's a 2600 barton on an k7n2 delta with 512 3200 and 80gb 8mb cached maxtor +radeon 9600xt.

Now, my question is this - what kind of temperature should my processor be running at normally?
What temp should i set my bios to alert me at?

Thnx

 

[jonnyapps]

hi, i FINALLY bought and installed my first rig. It's a 2600 barton on an k7n2 delta with 512 3200 and 80gb 8mb cached maxtor +radeon 9600xt.

Now, my question is this - what kind of temperature should my processor be running at normally?
What temp should i set my bios to alert me at?

Thnx

 

[qckbeam]

you really should post in the hardware forum for this kind of question

 

[Jammydodger]

Id say anything above 70c is in the danger zone. How many fans you got in your rig?
Here's a good prog for monitoring your system - http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

 

[Asus]

Most people with Athlon XP's and the retail heatsink report high 40s to 50s (C).
If you are in a hot room or poor case cooling, expect a rise in temp.
Most people think about better cooling when they pass 60C or their cooling is too loud for them.
AMD says you should be fine up to 80C or so. Pass that mark and you are in the red.

 

[Shuzer]

I used to say Motherboard Manager was the best prog to monitoring temps, but, have any of you tried AIDA32? Does alot more than monitor temps, it's great.

 

[Jammydodger]

Shuzer does it support system warning or shutdown like MBM does?

 

[RandomPING]

And if you're getting up near 70 or 80, make sure to check the ambient case temperature. While the processor may be able to put up with some hot conditions, the other hardware might not fair so well.

 

[Shuzer]

Shuzer does it support system warning or shutdown like MBM does?

Hmm.. lemme check.. nope
Oh well, I only tried MBM once, didn't look at all the features, so I didn't know it had that.

Either way, if you have an Asus board, I prefer AIDA32 over Asus Probe

 

[iamaelephant]

I was watching my bro play the new ar Cry demo last night, and the screen went all hazy and distorted. We decided to check it out, and thankfully he already had the sie panel off his box, he puts his finger on his Ti4200 video card's heatsink and it burnt him!
He looks under the card and the fan had stopped spinning!!

So obviously he quickly turned off the puter, waited a few minutes, fired it back up and the fan was going sweet. Nothing was damaged either

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

*Moved to hardware*

 

[Asus]

Uh oh!
My old gf4 4200 did something similar. I once noticed the fan just barely spinning. I promptly orderd a GPU heatsink/fan to replace mine of course.

Thats when good case cooling comes in handy.

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

Grrr.... Merged with your other thread....

 

[jonnyapps]

cheers for the help

 

[oD1Nz]

Ti4200 fans seem to be quite dodgy... my cards fan (see signature) also failed recently. Luckily it was still under warranty.

 

[RABIES]

If you are shaky about your CPU temp, not only use the monitoring tools but also set emergency shutdown temps in your BIOS. I think for most they start at 70C, but I have seen new boards that allow you to drop it to 50C I believe.

 

[umop]

That's interesting (about the GF4's fans). I also have a Ti4200 (only about a year old, not even) and it's been fine up until now. Yesterday I downloaded the Far Cry demo and after about an hour of playing it, I the graphics got all weird and I wasn't able to do anything / alt-tab out / hit windows key / ctrl-alt-del / alt-f4 / anything at all. Next time that happens I will be sure to check out the fan and see if it's still spinning as usual. Thanks for the heads up.