Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core, safe temps?

[SparkyJJO]

I have a 2500+ barton that I picked up from my brother when he upgraded to put in a folding PC. Found it was the magical stepping and set the FSB from 166 to 200MHz and instantly turned it into a 3200+. Runs great, but the temps seem to be a bit warm. It is hitting 65 degrees C, is this too warm? Been long enough since I had an Athlon XP that I can't remember what the normal temp was.

The heatsink is an old Tt volcano 7 (copper core with blue anodized aluminum fins) and has an 80mm Antec fan on it.

TIA

 

[ch33zw1z]

that's pretty warm, but in the safe operating temp IIRC. I ran the same chip the same way and the temps never broke 50 C. I used Artic Silver3 and a Thermalright SLK800. I had to re-apply the thermal paste once to get the right amount. too much will cause higher temps also.

 

[weeber]

I'm still using my Barton 2500+, O/C to 3000+ and it will easily hit 60C during the more intense operations. My cooling setup is Arctic Silver with an AX-7. I think you're fine, an overclocked Barton is a pretty warm chip.

 

[ch33zw1z]

You could always keep your coffee warm on top of pc too, quit complainin!!

 

[ForumMaster]

my dad has the athlon xp-m 2500+ barton oc'ed to 2.2Ghz. his temps may reach 53. i have the athlon xp-m 2400+. i use arctic silver 5 on it. recently (actually saturday) the fan on my arctic cooling copper silent 2m decided to die. took of the heatsink, cleaned it, applied new arctic silver and put just a stock fan on it while i wanted to buy the zalman 7000B. but my current temp (at 2200Mhz 200x11) is 25C. the highest i've seen it go now is 46C. i hope my motherboard isn't reporting incorrect temps but that's what i get from the BIOS as well.

 

[soccerballtux]

Run some Prime95 and if it's getting errors within 24 hours you need to cool it off or turn down the OC.