Normal Athlon 1000 temperature?

[elty]

What should be the normal running termperature for Athlon 1000 (FSB100)?

Mine is running at 63C idle, on load it goes to 69C. With CPUIdle the temperature droped to 54C, idle. I just add a new copper heatsink to replace the old stock heatsink, but temperature seems to stay the same. I am sure the thermal paste is applied and the heatsink is fitted well. However when I touch the heatsink it is not even warm, whereas the old stock heatsink it feel hot.

Once I opened the case the temperature drop to 45C. I have a fan at the back blowing IN, and I believe the PSU fan blowing out? Would it be better if I switch my case fan to blow OUT?

Room temperature is only 25C.

 

[GeeFizzleDizzle]

You should have at least one fan in the lower front blowing in and at least one fan in the upper rear blowing out. If you can, move that back fan to the front and have it blowing in to coincide with your PSU fan blowing out in the back.

 

[Aluvus]

The most common approach to airflow in a computer is front to back. If the fan is at the back, make it blow out; this helps reduce the amount of stagnant air in the case.

 

[Budarow]

Since hot air rises...it makes more sense to have the fan up top (and in the back) blowing out. The PS fan most likely doesn't move much air. You really need more case fans.

 

[elty]

I understand you need a front fan, but my ancient case only have 1 slot for a 80mm fan at the back.

 

[imported_thisbrian]

 

[DaNorthface]

all fans should be blowing out then

 

[imported_thisbrian]

That case fan at the back needs to be blowing out.!

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: thisbrian
That case fan at the back needs to be blowing out.!

Yep....turn the fan around then and have the air blowing out. Cases aren't exactly air tight...so there'll be some air leaks and the fan will be able to at least "remove" some hot air from inside the case. If you have to...remove some of the PCI slot covers from the back of your case to allow some cooler air into the case.

 

[mb103051]

they run hot.i had one for years and with a high performance cooler thats loud i ran 51-54 idle and 60-62 under load.i had all kinds of cooling systems on the cpu.if you can reduce the vcore some it helps too.i did this and it dropped it by about 8 deg celcius.drop it from 1.75 to 1.62-1.65.alot of the mobo's over volt.mine was always stable under volting it.

 

[Jeff7]

The later-model Thunderbird Athlons were some of AMD's hottest running CPUs. I think the 1.4GHz was in the 70W range. I actually managed to kill a cheap 300W PSU by running a stress test on a 1GHz Tbird overclocked to 1.4GHz. Very high power demands, and very high heat output.

 

[mindwreck]

those athlons were very hot running cpus. good thing was taht you could undervolt most of them and still have them stable.

I have my tbird runing at 1.4v and the stock voltage was 1.6 or 1.7 if i remember correctly. its oced to 1.38ghz and cooled entirely by a sk6+1 fan and no case fans. runs around the 40-45C range.

 

[A554SS1N]

Heh, the Athlon 1200 machine I'm on at the moment hit 66C on load a few warms days a couple of weeks back, and idled at about 56C - it's currently running at about 55C just browsing the internet; bit cooler now though.

 

[mindless1]

1) An 80mm rear exhaust fan used in conjunction with a reasonable, passive front intake area, is sufficient for a 1GHz Athlon unless you've failed to mention other large heat producers like several HDDs or new gaming video card (which would be pointless, a bad mismatch on 1GHz Athlon).

2) 1GHz Athlon does not run hot at stock speed. A low-end Celeron bought today will produce more heat at full load. It may "seem" hot because at idle the typical skt A motherboard didn't implement HALT cooling but we don't have to care about it, as the measure of cooling is the threshold of full load temp, not idle.

3) Take the case cover off and point a fan at it. Did that lower the CPU temp by more than a single-digit # of degrees? If so, you need significant chassis airflow changes. If only a minor change, it's your call how much work to put into changing chassis for an old lower value system.

4) If chassis cooling is sufficient, either the heatsink is not installed properly (and/or thermal compound bad or too thick), or it is an insufficient heatsink. Take a 1GHz Athlon and put a $8 Copper or Al 'sink like a Volcano 3 or 5 on it and it will be hot. Put a median to better grade 'sink from the Athlon XP era on it and it should stay within 30C rise over ambient, if not only 20C over.

5) Above numbers depend on 'sink fan selection as well, I wouldn't try to get a 1GHz Athlon down to 40C at expense of excessive noise.

In summary, there is no normal temp, on this CPU or any other. The temp is directly related to room and case ambient temp, heatsink mounting (properly or how bad if not proper), heatsink size/shape/quality, fan size/shape/RPM, chassis cooling. The least important parameter is what CPU it is but FWIW, IIRC, your chip should have a TDP of about 50W and you will seldom get that high except in select stress tests, not in a normal full load application use.