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Ideal temp for a P4 1.7 CPU?

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Valour

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Does anyone know what temp the P4 1.7Ghz CPU should be at under normal conditions? I haven't been able to find anything in regards to this in my documentation.

Thanks in advance.

Intel flamers need not reply. 🙂

Valour
 
I've heard in hte 40-50C range is normal, but of course adjusted for heatsink type, case cooling, and ambietn case temp.



Mike
 
Low 40s up to low 50s seems normal for the retail HSF, and nothing particularly special about the case.
 
Thanks guys. I'm currently around 43c with the retail heatsink & fan. Haven't put it through any stress tests yet though (hopefully tonight). Any idea what the danger zone (temp wise) is? I forgot to ask that in the original post. 🙂 btw, I won't be doing any over-clocking.

Valour
 
Dangerzone temperature wise would be towards where the thermal throttling is tripped, in the high 60s. It is VERY unlikely that you will ever get that far....the highest that you will ever likely to see is low 50s.

Strictly speaking, it's not really a dangerzone.....the processor will slow itself down to allow itself to cool and not burn itself out, leaving you with a very expensive keychain.
 
OK - a few things.

P4 is the "same" in temperature affinity as other CPU's - as such low 40's to low 50's (though the later is rare) are perfectly fine. Now - the point is that it's quite tricky to check on the CPU-temperature.

What these 40's to 50's degrees C are is ENVIRONMENTAL temperature (read: chassis air) - CPU changes temperature in a matter of parts of a seconds. Thermal throttling will ONLY kick in if you've got a crap FHS (which you don't - never had problems with Intel's boxed ones) or a chassis with bad airflow (that I can't say - you've not told us which one you got).

Either way - CPU FHS + 1 Fan (to the rear of the chassis) is pretty much enough for any system with a decent chassis. As long as you've got that, you need to worry. Also, 40's to low 50's is pretty normal operating envrionmental temperature - you needn't worry thus.

Throttling would only kick in if the CPU would be about to say "bye" on a permanent basis - if you've got your cooling sorted, that should not be the case. 😀

Hope this helps.
 
Well thanks again, guys. The information is definitely appreciated. BTW, my case is an Antec SX-1030B, with 2 rear fans and 1 front fan (have the 4th fan for hard drives, but haven't put it in yet. Not sure if it's needed).

As for the throttling, what has been said here is very different compared to some other forums ('the sky is falling!' type posts). I was actually starting to get worried after reading numerous posts regarding this, but have since started to swing back the other direction. I believe if this was truely as bad as others are saying, the problem would be VERY apparent, and not coming from just a couple places on the net. Since I just put the system together last night, I have yet to see for myself.

Thanks again.
 
As far as the throttling scare that was being spread on the forums, I think a little common sense should of been used when thinking about the truth of it. Do you think Intel would release a flagship processor that would run slower under normal conditions than its prior model. Companies don't stay in business long with those kind of problem's. And I don't believe for a minute that Intel is that kind of stupid. They simply put a nice built in protection for extreme conditions that most of us will never ask our computers to work in. Like ambients of 95-100 or more.

I currently run a T-bird, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't get an Intel processor when OS software starts to use its optimized features (and the required memory gets cheaper). This "companyistic" viewpoint of Intel vs AMD is dumb. Why wouldn't any of us just wanna use the best available equipment. And thats what making the growth of computer technology so accelerated is the competition. Yeahhhhhhhhh competition. Look what only having one serious competitor in the OS department has left us with. Software that can actually lock up well built hardware regularly and we just accept it and "reboot". Don't get me started there.

Sorry for the long post......
 
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