Is my 1800+ with stock HSF with ok temp?

[Opapa]

i just put together a xp 1800+ and a gigabyte GA-7VRX with 256 mb DDR266. I'm using stock HSF and no overclock, but the bios report 50 degreee C whitout loading and high 50s when full load (encodeing MPEG2). Is that acceptable or do i need a better HSF rather than the stock one.
P.S. my room temp is about 75 F.

 

[stantonk]

I am no expert on Athlon XPs by any stretch of the word, but I just built a similar system (1800+, MSI KT3 Ultra, PC333 DDR) and I was at the same room temperature (75 farenheit). I only used stock HSF that came with the processor and some thermal grease inbetween the heatsink and the core and it ran at MOST 50, maybe 51 degrees while I did a Quake3 timedemo while listening to mp3s, and at most 48, 49 while watching a DVD. You didn't mention that you used thermal grease so that may be your reason for higher core temps. Thermal grease is a MUST for the XP's because they tend to run pretty hot.

 

[stantonk]

Oh one more thing, I'm not overclocking that processor either, its running at stock speed.

 

[Opapa]

yeah, i didn't use the thermal grease, i only used the thermal pad/film that come with the processor hsf.
thanks

 

[WTT0001]

The GA-7VRX does report temps on the hot side (very much so with the 1.0 and 1.1 revisions). My 1800+ was running low to high 60's (full load using RC5) with the retail heatsink, I bought a AX-7 and got the rev 2.0 (GA-7VRXP) and it is still in the 40's (full load using RC5).

That all said, your temps sound normal🙂

 

[jaybee]

If you aren't overclocking and are stable, don't worry about heat. There's no way you'll kill that processor at default voltage. If you want to overclock, heat will be an issue. If you are getting errors, heat may be an issue. Otherwise, relax and enjoy the relative silence (compared to the 5000+rpm fans) of your stock XP 🙂

jaybee