High CPU Temperature 82 Degrees Celcius

[VTboy]

I have an Athlon XP 1800+ and right now my CPU has reached 82 Degrees Celcius. Is this way to hot. What is causing this. This computer is not OC.

 

[thetman]

Yes, this is way too hot. Make sure your fan on top of your heat sink is properly set and spinning. Also check to make sure that your heatsink is set properly and have correctly applied some thermal paste.

 

[CHarrington]

Do you have a heatsink/fan on it?

Your cpu wont last long at that temperature.

That's very close to the melting point!

 

[SickBeast]

Oh yes it's amazing his computer will even post and boot at that temperature. Fried eggs, anyone?

 

[VTboy]

Yes the fun is spinning. Also I am running a UD comp distributing thing on my computer, so it runs at 100% all the time. I just turned it off. The temp has lowered it self right now to 72. So I think it has to do with me running that program. YES the fan is spinning. The CPU fan is spinning at 4650 RPM, is this to slow.

 

[Algere]

Yes, Please!

 

[Mik3y]

your cpu fan is running actually very fast. do you have any thermal paste under the heatsink? also, the mainboard's thermal diode may actually be wrong. some mobo's have been known to have bad sensor readings because of drivers.

 

[VTboy]

This computer is not new. It is over a year old. This is the first time this has happen. However I never actually installed the CPU monitor untill now though. Also I think the temp is correct because when I place a thermometer next to the air being blown out of the computer it reads 42 Degree C. So the air being blown out of my computer was 42 degrees C. So the CPU is no dount much higher than that. Also the computer started to freeze.

I dont know if this does anything but my computer has been running at 100% CPU ussage for 24/7 for atleast since November. I have never turned it off since november and it is always at 100 CPU usage.

What is the max temp the CPU should be at.

 

[ZombieJesus]

Touch the heatsink carefully and if it hurts you are in trouble if not its a false alarm. Oh and your CPU should run at around 40 C

 

[Soulkeeper]

just be thankfull you don't have a prescott cpu

 

[cartmanea]

42c case temperatures are way too high. My case temp is around 25c under load, and my stress temp is around 37 at 1.7v. Could you please describe your cooling setup: case, fans in/out, heatsink, etc?

And did you use thermal compound???

What motherboard/temperature sensing program are you using?

 

[VTboy]

I am using some program called MBM5.

Also I dont know if this matters but the computer unit it self is in a cabinet that is closed with only a small hole for wires.

I didn't actually build this computer. Someone I know did.

From the looks of it, the case has 2 large fans on the side, the CPU has a fun, and the motherboard has this tiny fan. All seem to be working (spining).

Also it is a Palomino Core not a Barton.

 

[cartmanea]

OMG, take it out of the cabinet. That is keeping new, cool air from entering the case and is just recirculating the hot air it exhausts. Desk manufacturers should be hanged for making closed compartments for computers.

You can get away with it when you computer is idle a lot, but running at 100% usage greatly increases the heat it puts out.

You should also talk to the guy who made it and find out if there is any thermal compound in there. Also look into what cooler is on it because it sounds like it is not good enough.

 

[JediJeb]

You may also want to look and see if there is dust build up on the heat sink, if it has alot of dust on it then it wont cool well.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i pulled a quarter inch sheet of dust/lint/particles off my sp-94 last time i took the fan off
that crud builds up quick hehe

 

[RaistlinZ]

Take the computer out of that cabinet and keep it out. 42c case temp is almost mind-boggling.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: ZombieJesus
Touch the heatsink carefully and if it hurts you are in trouble if not its a false alarm. Oh and your CPU should run at around 40 C

actually, not always...with all else being identical, someone who isn't using thermal compound (and therefore has a much hotter running processor) will have a cooler heatsink. If your heatsink is hot, it's a sign that the sink is doing a good job of removing heat from the processor, but the airflow sucks.

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: ZombieJesus
Touch the heatsink carefully and if it hurts you are in trouble if not its a false alarm. Oh and your CPU should run at around 40 C

Uhh not exactly...if the hsf is not hot he could still have worn out the as3 or whatever thermal paste was used...that would be bad!

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: cartmanea
OMG, take it out of the cabinet.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: VTboy
Yes the fun is spinning. Also I am running a UD comp distributing thing on my computer, so it runs at 100% all the time. I just turned it off. The temp has lowered it self right now to 72. So I think it has to do with me running that program. YES the fan is spinning. The CPU fan is spinning at 4650 RPM, is this to slow.

Check your heatsink installation against picture #3 here, did you get it oriented that way? And you used thermal grease (or a brand-new phase-change thermal patch) between the CPU core and the heatsink, correct?

Ooops, somehow I missed the part about the system being in a torture chambe-- uh, I mean, a computer desk's cupboard. Get it outa there! :Q

 

[VTboy]

I have removed it from the "Torture Chanber". When I am doing normal ussage like internet, and games then the temperature reads between 58-62 degrees for the CPU, and 30-35 for the case. When I have it on 100% CPU usage the temperature of the CPU increases to around 70.

 

[cartmanea]

How many case fans do you have, which are blowing in and which are blowing out, and where are they located?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: VTboy
I have removed it from the "Torture Chanber". When I am doing normal ussage like internet, and games then the temperature reads between 58-62 degrees for the CPU, and 30-35 for the case. When I have it on 100% CPU usage the temperature of the CPU increases to around 70.

There are a handful of motherboards where those temps would be within the normal range, including Abit's first-generation nForce boards, the infamous EPoX 8KHA's, Asus A7V333's with old BIOS versions and the Gigabyte 7VRX family. It's a calibration thing. Of course, if MBM5 doesn't figure out what mobo you have, that could cause erroneous readings too. What board is it, do you know?

 

[VTboy]

Abit AT7, I did select that one from the list. this is the original AT7

 

[mechBgon]

If you're confident that the heatsink is on properly and has a good thermal interface to the CPU, and the system is stable, then I'd go ahead and call it good. Your case temps (if they're accurate) are not too outrageous at 30-35C.