73C idle temp

[Tainer]

i have an xp 2100+ with the retail hsf and it runs at 73C idle......

now i hard that these procs are supposed to be able to handle up to 90C but i'm guessing under heavy load my proc will reach mid 80s... is this anything to worry about....? i seriously think this is really high.

 

[mechBgon]

What motherboard do you have? There is at least one where the normal CPU temperature estimates hover around the 70C mark. The other likely problem is that you have bad thermal transfer from the CPU core to the heatsink, and the likely causes are

• A heatsink that's been installed backwards (the step in the base must go at the solid plastic end of the CPU socket, not the other way)
• A heatsink that's been installed the right way but with a reversed clip (the clip is asymetrical and its pressure point must be over the CPU core, not the other way)
• A bad thermal interface caused by not taking a plastic protective slip off the retail heatsink's thermal pad (if so equipped, some have a cover over the whole base of the heatsink now)

There are some other possibilities too (CPU is overspeed or overvoltage, heatsink's fan is snagged on a cable, etc). Hope that helps! 🙂

 

[Tainer]

i have the abit kd7-raid

and i used the retail hsf with the pin down side facing the psu.

so i clipped it on below the proc and used a screw driver above.

it had that solid pink goo on the bottom of the hsf.

 

[mechBgon]

You got the heatsink on the right way, then... perhaps the KD7-RAID follows in the footsteps of Abit's nForce boards, which are the ones I was referring to as having normal temps around 70C.

 

[Tainer]

at what temp should i get worried?

and how would a mobo affect cpu temp? unless the sensor was closer or something..

 

[mechBgon]

They just do. You could put the same CPU and heatsink on two different nForce 220D boards, the Asus A7N266-VM and the Abit N7V-M, and they would estimate the CPU temperature at 40C and 70C, respectively. Is the CPU really running 30C hotter in one board than the other? Is it running ANY hotter in one board than the other? No way, and probably not.

See if your system runs stable under heavy CPU load and make your judgements, I guess.

 

[Tainer]

well if it says 40C in other mobos then i would say those mobos are taking the cpu surface temp, not the core.

my surface shows about 40c while the core is around 75-80.

now if other mobos showed about 60-70c then i'd really have something to complain about.

 

[ScrewFace]

70 degrees Celsius!?! I thought my overclocked Tualatin Celeron ran hot at 53 degrees Celsius. I guess it ain't so bad after all!:Q

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I got a 2000+ that re-boots when it hit's 84C, runs at about 74C (thermal diode)under a normal load. retail non-OC'd my only guess is the retail hsf sucks.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I got a 2000+ that re-boots when it hit's 84C, runs at about 74C (thermal diode)under a normal load. retail non-OC'd my only guess is the retail hsf sucks.

yup 😀
my a7v w/ 1ghz tbird and some stock heatsink gave me 60C upon startup in bios, and 70C or so in windows...idle...under load it wouldget 85-95C :Q
i did this for ~5months...

still running like a champ 😀 (im on it right now 😉 )

 

[sash1]

Originally posted by: ScrewFace
70 degrees Celsius!?! I thought my overclocked Tualatin Celeron ran hot at 53 degrees Celsius. I guess it ain't so bad after all!:Q

haah, I've had my processors get close to 80C. I really don't worry, I've been overclocking stuff before I can remember and I jsut don't care about temperatures anymore.