48.9 Celcius... is it too hot?

[tluu]

I am sorry for this post, I searched the archeive and found that 42 C is good. But what about 49C? The CPU runs at 42.7C when idling, 49, under normal load(IE MP3 playing, and word processing)

I have an AMD 1700+ retail, with retail fan, Epox 8KHA+, 512 DDR 2100 Crucial Ram, GF2 MX400, Nikao Noblesse Case, 340W AMD Approved Case. No overclocking. I had the RAM set to Turbo, and was getting memory dumps.

Maybe, I used to have a celeron 566 OC'ed to 850, and that only ran at 33C

 

[Mikewarrior2]

its doubtful that 48.9 on an 8kha+ caused heat related issues unless you have an extremely low ambient case temp.



Mike

 

[HappyPuppy]

That temp isn't bad considering you're using the retail HSF with thermal pad. Don't worry about it.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Yeah, they are fine. However, If you really want to lower them get a new heatsink and some arctic silver compound. With a coolermaster hhc-001 and arctic silver 3, my 1800+ oc'd to 2000+ idles at 31.