Is this normal? My idle temp is 33 and my load temp is 52! (1.6a)

[AznRyda]

My voltage is at 1.7. I guess 52 isn't that bad, I am still using the stock heatsink and fan. But I thought it was weird that the temperature difference would be 19 degrees! I thought it'd be 10 at most. :Q is it weird?

after full load the heat dissapates quickly though so thats good to know.

 

[tweakr]

Sounds ok....why you got your voltage at 1.7v? Standard voltage for a PIV 1.6a is 1.5v, unless you're overclocking? In which case, that temperature swing isn't bad - what you have to remember is that the thermal sensor for a PIV is actually *in* the CPU, so it will register much wider swings of temperature, and much faster swings in temp, than would a socket thermistor (as in the Athlon).

A socket thermistor will register a steady rise in temperature when the CPU goes under load, whereas a thermal diode in-chip will just suddenly jump when the load is put on and off.

Hope this sheds some light on it
tweakr

 

[imported_zenwhen]

Eh... that swing is a bit far. Most jumps I have seen have been at most 10-12 degrees. You may want to check and replan your ventilation, turn the AC up, and reseat the HSF with a nice thin coat of AS3.

 

[Buk]

My 1.6A @ 2.1 runs from ~30 idle to about 41 under load (prime95) with a sunflower and ASII. Voltage is set at 1.55 is bios but reads 1.5 in MBM. What xzenwhenx said will be a good start.............

 

[WarCon]

Increased voltage on these Northwoods can really cause alot of heat. But 52C is really not bad at all for a stock heatsink. I don't think I would sweat it. As far as the wide swing goes, yeah its possible, especially if your "full load" temp was increasing your case temp a significant amount also.

Was your full load temp after gaming or video testing? Your video card will dump heat into your case too which will increase your full load temp.

 

[AznRyda]

tweakr - yeah I am overclocking, my fsb is at 160 so I had to up the voltage to stay stable. Thats real interesting about the sensors though, I hadn't realized it.

xzenwhenx - yeah it is a bit far, I'm not really concerned about the max heat as much as I am about the deviance. I guess I'll try reapplying the as3, I think I may have used too much, I don't know though.

Buk - I think with lower voltages my p4 wasn't too hot either. I didn't stay at default for long though.

WarCon - I think my case ventilation is pretty decent, I guess i could tie some of the cables together more though. The temp was under prime95. I wonder how much higher it'd be if my vid card was generating heat too. :Q

 

[DukeChestnut]

 

[DukeChestnut]

CASE TEMPS!

i'm willing to bet that u that ur case ventilation is outta whack. i bet u have more fans blowing out than in and it is creating a vaccum suction which is bad in sudden rises in temps. try opening the side case door and run under load. ur load temps will be lower due to the free flow of air. that means u need to increase the intake air.

 

[Duvie]

Noooo....It sounds fine...

This is a product of using the retail hsf...It is only like 2700rpm fan. So as you boosted the vcore and speed the 2700rpm and the cfm is insufficent to cool properly.


I saw same thing with my 1.8a and retail hsf. Switch over the a $20 avc hsf and AS2 or 3 and the swing will be more in line with the 10-12 swing. 33 idle is a great temp. If case cooling was an issue I find it hard you could achieve 33c. It is just the retail hsf which wasn't intended for these overclocks. Don't get me wrong it does a helluva job and better then any retail hsf that comes with and athlon but 960mhz ocing is a lot. need a 27-33cfm fan..

 

[jdurg]

Is your system stable? That's the important question. I have a 1.8A running at 2.52 GHz with a vcore of 1.70 actual. (Set to 1.775 in the BIOS of my MSI 845 Ultra-ARU mobo.) At idle, my system is around 50 degrees Celsius. Under full load, it gets up to around 66 degrees. At first, I was really worried about this temperature. This is using a massive copper heatsink with a fast fan on the top, and the third re-application of AS3. (Since I lapped my Cooler Master IHC-H71 to a mirror smooth finish, I only used a slight haze of AS3 this time around.) I was getting really nervous that my system would crash on me because of the high temperatures. But after hours upon hours of Medal of Honor, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Soldier of Fortune 2, the system is rock stable. The load temperature does get up there, but it drops back down to idle temps within seconds of taking away the load.

Also, my temperatures never changed when I took the side off of my case. With the cover removed, there was no change in the system temp. or the cpu temp. So either my mo-bo is reporting the temperatures high, or my cpu just wants to run hot. Either way, I'm not complaining because my system is rock stable and running 720 MHz faster than it was rated for. (Although it won't run stable at a higher speed unless I up the vcore some more. I really don't want to do that, so I'll just stick with what I've got.) So if your system is stable for your needs, then don't worry too much about the temperatures. (I'll have to admit, after six hours straight of Prime95, my system does lock up on me to where I have to manually reboot. However, I have never, and will never, have this thing under a full load for six plus hours at a time. Have too many things to do. lol.)

 

[FalseChristian]

Don't worry about it. Motherboard Probe reports my case temperature as 37 Celsius and my CPU at 52 Celsius. It's stable, though, and is running great. It's the dumb heat spreader on new Intel CPUs. It doesn't allow your cooler to cool as effectively as when Intel had the die exposed directly to the heatsink like the .18m Celerons and Pentium III's.

 

[WangButter]

It could also be your mobo reporting incorrect temperatures. What kind of motherboard are you using? Abits in particular are notorious for having incorrect CPU temp readings.