New to Intel, P4 temp question

[lenjack]

I've just gone from AMD to intel, and am not familiar with acceptable P4 temps. I have a P4 2.53 (retail HSF with AS...yes, removed all the thermal gunk before applying AS), 256 m crucial pc2100 on Asus P4S8X, idles at 42, prime 95 takes it to 52 in 3 minutes at which time prime 95 fails. Im not overly concerned about prime 95...my concern is the temps. What is a "good" idle temp, and what is a "Good" load temp"? I do plan to o/c, so I know the temps will be even higher. Thanks.

 

[Lizardman]

yours sound fine to me. Which motherboard do you have. Most read the temps inaccurately. My abig bg7 reads the temp like 10 to 15 deg C higher than it actually is.

Edit:: NM i see an Asus board.

Did you lap down the retail heatsink too, to make sure all the grey pad was off?

 

[JuicyFruit]

Originally posted by: lenjack
I've just gone from AMD to intel, and am not familiar with acceptable P4 temps. I have a P4 2.53 (retail HSF with AS...yes, removed all the thermal gunk before applying AS), 256 m crucial pc2100 on Asus P4S8X, idles at 42, prime 95 takes it to 52 in 3 minutes at which time prime 95 fails. Im not overly concerned about prime 95...my concern is the temps. What is a "good" idle temp, and what is a "Good" load temp"? I do plan to o/c, so I know the temps will be even higher. Thanks.

If your room is really hot, 52 is about right. My friend has your chip with a p4b533-e and he's getting 45 load. I think my friend's at 29 idle with it overclocked to 2.8 something.

I'd make sure that all the gunk was off the retail before applying the as3. Just try to follow what their site suggests.

I have a 2.53 myself and when I had it overclocked to 2.92 my temps were around 52, I think. That's overclocked with stock hsf. What kind of a case do you have? My friend and I both have relatively big cases (me-alienware knockoff, friend-kingwin 3 window) with at least 4 fans. Maybe your case? Not enough fans or good cooling?

But yeah, I think your temps are a little high.

 

[Duvie]

Mobos will vary reported temps greatly.....But using a retail hsf and getting those temps are fine and right in line.....

I don't think that temp would cause prime95 to fail and throttling shouldn't occur until somewhere around 66-70c from some testing...again this could vary mobo to mobo. In my research asus boards across the chipsets ( intel and sis) report some of the lowest temps...Abits and MSIs report some of the highest....

Unless your ram is sh^t or you have timings maxed way to high, I wouldbe concerened about failing prime at this non oc'd point...

 

[skriefal]

A reading of 52C under load should not be a cause for concern -- that temp is well within the safe limits for the processor, and shouldn't cause any stability problems. So either the reading is inaccurate and the real temp is much higher, or you're encountering problems with some other piece of hardware in the system...

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

temperature is ok, not the best but thats ok, you are with retail anyways (which is pefectly within the limits)

i would however, definitely be worried about prime 95 failing :Q
especially in 3minutes .....

 

[RU482]

FWIW, I just put together a P4 2.4B system on an Intel mobo. There are 2 22CFM silent case fans and a retail HSF w/Artic Silver3. Under 100% load, in a 21C ambient room, I'm running 45C CPU temps

Coming from AMD land, I'm just blown away by the fact that the loudest thing in my case is my harddrive

 

[lenjack]

Thanks all. I should add that the temps I gave were frome Asus Probe...the bios reads about 6 degrees higher.