Cpu temperature help!

[duffman1]

I have noticed my athlon 3500+ winchester has been running about 44c when idol and 50c under load. I have it over clocked but what gets me is i cant get the temperature down. I put it to stock speed and it still runs at 50c when under load. Also when i put it to 1.5v my computer goes messed. It still works but my internet wont work properly. Msn wont connect and explorer wont work. Anyone got any ideas on wut might be wrong and how i could fix it and lower temperature?

 

[daniel49]

How is your cooling? air? how many fans where. or water?
stock heatsink?

If its airflow is your box cramped where you may be restricting the flow?
If those temps are your cpu maybe a little high but not too bad there supposedly able to take up to 90, but I wouldn.t want to test that

If those are your system temps them maybe just need to improve the cooling.

 

[duffman1]

i have 4 case fans, and a stock heatsink.

 

[NotquiteanooB]

Try WATER COOLING
I don't know why, but my Barton 2800's seem to be similar. At idle 39*C; at 100 % load 39*C; OC'd idle 40*C; OC'd load 40*C. Both Watercooled. Water cooling dropped the temps from 50*C to 39*C. Cases have 2x120mm fans internal, and 1x120 fan on the rad. external.
Is it something in the way AMD chips are made? P4's immediately jump up the temp when under load and even more when OC"d.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

50C under load unusual for a stock heatsink if you're overclocking.

Be aware that you really can't rely on the on-chip temp probe. It's common for it to be off by 5 degrees easily. The probe is ONLY intended as a warning to prevent the CPU from being damaged.

If you don't overclock the stock heatsink is fine. If you plan on overclocking then you should be using something more than the stock heatsink.

 

[duffman1]

but i changed to to stock speeds so its not overclocked anymore and its still the same temperature.............................

 

[imported_nocturne]

Had the same problem on my AXP3000+. I switched to a faster fan and added an air duct, and now I idle around 30C with 48C on load. Either that's what fixed the problem, or I had one of my temp probes between the die and the HSF.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

That really is not all that high for a stock heatsink. Athlon 64 3200+ here with stock and adequate cooling and run 54C under load.

Anything under 60C is fine. Sure, lower would be better, and as I pointed out your temp probe could be off.

 

[Mo0o]

50 under load with an AMD and stock cooling is decent. I wouldn't worry

 

[duffman1]

i always thought over 50 was bad but i guess not thanks for the help. im gonna probably get water cooling though. but the other part of the problem i dont get is when i turn my voltage down to 1.5 and not 1.6v my internet doesnt work........ it connects but msn wont connect and no web pages come up.........