Normal Temp for a Northwood should be?

[TheRyuu]

Quick question, what should the normal temp for a Northwood P4 be?
Because right now it's hitting ~78C under load which seems a tad too high.

Also I think it idles at ~50C.

Thanks

Edit: I've read that Northwoods should Idle ~35C? And should'nt really get more than 50C under load right?

BTW, this is with the stock cooler.

 

[TheRyuu]

Anybody? It's a quick question, I tried searching for my older post, but couldn't find it.

 

[GregGreen]

I'm rather curious about this too. Out of curiousity I check my temps for my 3.0C and they were very similar to yours if not higher. I do not think these are normal though -- I seem to remember they were a good bit lower three years ago when I got the system. I also have ths stock cooler -- cleaning some dust out of the heatsink would probably do me a considerable amount of good.

 

[stevty2889]

Those temps are WAY too high for a northwood. You load temps should be around 55c max, the stock cooler sucks, but doesn't suck that bad. Something is very wrong if you are hitting 78c load, and you are almost guranteed to be throttlilng at those temps as well. Be sure to clean out any dust, make sure the fan is spinning. Do you have good airflow in your case? An intake fan in the front and exhaust fan in the back?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Northwoods run pretty hot. On stock cooling (not overclocked) they will run into the high 40's/low 50's. 78C sounds wonky - something is not right. Heatsink may be off, fan may be dead, or some other problem (CPU thermal compound sandwich?)

 

[anandtechrocks]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Northwoods run pretty hot. On stock cooling (not overclocked) they will run into the high 40's/low 50's. 78C sounds wonky - something is not right. Heatsink may be off, fan may be dead, or some other problem (CPU thermal compound sandwich?)

I've got a 2.26 GHz Northwood overclocked to 2.8 Ghz at 1.57V, I have it paired with a XP-90 and it idles around 30C, when Priming it has never broken 50C.

I'm sure the XP-90 is much better than the stock cooler, but 78C sounds way to high.

 

[ctbrown]

My Northwood Idles at ~36 C and goes upto ~55 C on load. This is overclocked from 2.0 to 2.67.

 

[obeseotron]

Anything higher than mid 50s is not normal, I'm not sure what the actual stable limit is, but it's almost certainly under 78. Even a prescott shouldn't get that hot with a properly installed cooler. Sounds like you are either getting the wrong temperature reported or you didn't mount your cooler correctly.

 

[pm]

Mine is idling at 24C (room ambient is 20C). Up to 46C under load (alt-tabbed out of World of Warcraft). I'm measuring with the program that Asus included with the motherboard, Asusprobe. I'm using a Zalman 7000-Cu with AS5. My voltage is 1.5V, frequency is 3.0GHz.

 

[TheRyuu]

Also, what would the max voltage be if you were overclocking it. Like 1.5v is for the Dual Core Opterons, what would it be for the Northwood.

Thanks.