is my cpu too hot?

[mystere79]

p3 700 not overclocked.
temp hits as high as 46c is this too hot? lowest around 37c when i'm not doing anything.
I have alpha pep, heat sink never gets warm. infact cooler than the room tempture.
Heat sink is setting right.

 

[MortaniuS]

Well the fact that the heatsink is room temp is not neccesarily good, that may mean that heat is not getting transfered from your cpu to your heatsink properly, i would get some arctic silver if i were you.

 

[Mule]

Case cooling would also help. I used to get ~45C on my PIII 450 with retail H/S/F and some crappy case fans. I then got a coolmaster cooler(with some fine thermal paste) and downed it to 38C, then I took a 120mm Case fan for intake and a slot cooler for outake and it won't budge past 30C