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    Too hot for stock?

    Thanks for the replies. The motherboard is an ECS 945GCT-M3. In the bios, the temp registered as 35C, which is still way too hot for this CPU at idle. Especially considering this PC sits RIGHT NEXT to a window unit air conditioner. I don't have any thermal compound handy, so that will have...
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    Too hot for stock?

    I have a Celeron 440 in a brand new budget system with really nothing installed (integrated vga, pci slots are empty, one 1GB DDR2 stick, 160GB SATA2 HDD, lone DVDRW drive). This processor is supposed to run very cool. A summary of opinions suggests idle temps should be in the mid to high 20s...