High temp. for first boot

[KMan510]

Hey everyone, I just finished up building my first PC, and I booted up and went into the Bios, and my CPU temp is reading 52/53 degress celcius. Im running an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ with a Zalman CNPS7000-Cu cooler, HELP!!!

 

[Zucarita9000]

If you're using thermal paste, such as Artic Silver 5 or the one that came with your Zalman, give it a couple of days and the temps should come down. This is know as the "burn in" period, in wich the thermal paste melts and fills the microscopic valleys on the surface of both the CPU and the heatsink.

When I put my rig together and booted up, the CPU temp was 53º and a week later, it was 43-44ºC. Your milage may vary though....

 

[imported_waldo]

Zuca is right...give it a few days, leave it running for several hours, and throw on some stress tests like Sandra and Prime95 and the like

 

[drpootums]

Also, in my bios it reads around the same as your's does for my 3400+ nc, but with Smartguardian (DFI temp program) it shows in the lower 40 C's, i wouldnt worry, but just to make sure get some sort of program to check it.