Need Athlon 64 Help!

[ahdunno]

I have an HP/Asus OEM K8S-LA socket 754 Mobo.
A64 3000+ Newcastle. Specs say 70C max. I'm idling at 60C.
I'm not overclocking and using stock AMD cooler.
The BIOS is limited, no setting for vcore and such, and I can't find a Hardware Monitor utility that works with this board. Even Asus Probe doesn't function.
Any input is appreciated. Also, can someone LMK the RPM of a stock AMD s754 cooler.
Mine's running at aprox 2200rpm.
Thanks...
-ahdunno

 

[Maximilian]

Solution: Open up the case and clean all the dust/dirt out of the heatsink that is on top of the CPU. You dont need to remove the heatsink to do this, if you really feel like it (i wouldnt bother but you might ) you can take off the heatsink and remove the old thermal paste and apply some nice new arctic silver 5 too. Removing any dust buildup will suffice though.

 

[ahdunno]

It's seems its the fan headers on the mobo. The RPMs are low. I put another fan in that runs on another board @5800rpm...it only ran @3900rpm on this board.
I ended up using a 4pin molex to 3pin fan adapter to run the fan direct off of 12v.
Problem was the system would not boot with no fan on the cpu fan header. I just moved my case fan to that header. Now I'm running 54-55C on idle. Still kind of high.
This is a new assembly. HSF was like new....no dust. And I used Silver Thermal paste from CompUSA. Best I could come up with right now.

 

[Maximilian]

Take off the heatsink and have a look under there, the thermal paste might be al rusty and need replacing. Also leave it idling for a while before taking off the heatsink and see if the heatsink gets warm, the monitoring software could be wrong or the heatsink may not be making good contact with the CPU.