Athlon XP2700+ running at 57 Celcius.........normal?

[powerMarkymark]

Just got an Athlon XP2700+ on an Epox 8R3DA+ nForce and my temp reads 57 Celcius at idle ........that seems high to me.....no?


TIA

Mark

 

[BlueWeasel]

What are you using as cooling? Retail AMD-supplied heatsink and fan using the thermal pad?

 

[Jeff7181]

< 85 degrees C = just fine according to AMD

 

[myocardia]

That's high, man. What does it run under heavy load? See what happens while you run Prime95 torture test, or even better CPU Burn.

edit: And no, that isn't normal at all. Most people average low-40's C at idle, even when overclocked.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Yes...........stock cooling.

 

[Jeff7181]

As long as you installed it correctly, don't worry about it.

 

[Ikonomi]

But if you didn't install it correctly, do it over. 57 C idle seems a little high, but it's nothing to worry about, and I dunno where your motherboard reads the temperature from anyway. It's probably fine.

For reference, my 2700+ overclocked to 2275 MHz at 1.7 Vcore idles at 43 C with a Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu with the fan turned all the way down to 1400 RPM. YMMV, I guess.

 

[txxxx]

Originally posted by: powerMarkymark
Yes...........stock cooling.

Yeah seems about right, your not overclocking so it wont matter, and its well under the 85C limit for => 2200+

 

[pspada]

1) The 2700+ runs at a significantly higher clockspeed than, say, a 2500+. So it's bound to run hotter.

2) The stock hsf has an alum pad on the bottom, so it conducts somewhat less heat than the compariable copper pad on the 3000+ hsf.

3) The 2700+ is a tbred, thus it has a smaller core to disapate heat through, therefore runs hotter.

I have one in the field, and it has a comparable temp. You should be fine.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Thanks everybody..........was a little worried there.

 

[fibes]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
What are you using as cooling? Retail AMD-supplied heatsink and fan using the thermal pad?

I would remove that thermal pad(if you have one) and apply Arctic Silver. See what I recommended for this thread.

Arctic Silver recommendation

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

IMO..that temp is way too high. I know the max temp is 85 celc but I get worried when my cpu gets to 45 plus. If it were me.. I would get a better heatsink/fan assembly. Maybe a Thermalright SLK800 or above to cool that baby. Then go for a TT Smart Case fan 80mm. YOu'll probably see your temps drop considerably.

Wanna buy my 800u?

 

[NEVERwinter]

I still think that it's too high man. XPs are much cooler than Thunderbirds, and I remember that on stock cooling my Tbird was around 55-60 and my XP is around 47-52

Originally posted by: fibes

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
What are you using as cooling? Retail AMD-supplied heatsink and fan using the thermal pad?

I would remove that thermal pad(if you have one) and apply Arctic Silver.

good idea

 

[MDE]

If it works and it's stable don't worry about it.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
< 85 degrees C = just fine according to AMD

I believe that's for the diode temps instead of socket. So add 6-7 degrees to that number... but you're still fine. Your CPU won't burn up on your or nothing like that.

 

[Spike]

according to the K7 electrical pdf from AMD, The temp of the cpu should be 60-65 c or lower as reported by a monitoring utility. They know the utilites are not accurate (it says that in the pdf) so they give a safe estimate. I would say even though the temps are high, you are fine as long as the system is stable and you are below this threshold.

-spike

 

[Isol8ed]

Originally posted by: Spike
according to the K7 electrical pdf from AMD, The temp of the cpu should be 60-65 c or lower as reported by a monitoring utility. They know the utilites are not accurate (it says that in the pdf) so they give a safe estimate. I would say even though the temps are high, you are fine as long as the system is stable and you are below this threshold.

-spike

Very true, however, like the others, I prefer to have my processer temp <50C.

 

[Spike]

yah, I prefer to be below that but I sometimes sqeak above 50c when gaming... ah well. I figure as long as I don't crash it's all good.

-spike

 

[powerMarkymark]

Well I changed the stock cooling for a Thermaltake Volcano Xaser edition and added some case fans and lo and behold, mt temp is down to a respectable 42 to 48 celcius.

Ah................much better.

Thanks for the comments all.

Mark