HELP - Celeron too hot?

[White Widow]

I have a Celeron-2 600MHz running at 900MHz at 1.70v. It's a cC0 chip that defaults to 1.70. It is mounted to a generic slocket that is in my P3V4X. I am using a FOP-32 to cool it, with some Arctic Silver slid in there. With the case CLOSED, the ambient case temperature is around 30 degrees, and the CPU runs at 45 degress while idle. Under 100% load, it tops out around 58 degrees. This seems a little high to me. The Asus board reads the thermal probe built into the Celeron core, so perhaps that's why it's higher than what others are reporting? If that's the case, what is the equivalent "surface' temperature?

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[bacillus]

I don't think that your temperatures look too bad in view of the case ambient temperature. may be worthwhile to improve the ventilation/cooling of the case to lower your cpu's running temperature!

 

[A2KLAU]

Temp sounds OK! Just maybe drill a few wholes in the front of your case or have letters like me so that air can go in straight and not through litle wholes else where which does nothing to cooling!

Hope this helped,

Albert.

 

[White Widow]

Thanks for the response. Since everything works fine, I'm notinclined to change the case too much. I have an 80mm Sunon man sucking in air from the front. The way the case is designed, there are no holes in the front, but a wide open rectangle facing downwards that allows for an unobstructed intake of air. I have an extra exhaust fan installed in the PS and I have a slot cooler installed that blows the ambient case air over the video card. I live in Southern California, and my dorm room is always around 24 degrees.

-Aaron