Temp for a 1 Gig Athlon.

[Surfhead]

I have an the above processor on a Abit KT7a MB. My cpu temp is 47-49 C. Is that too hot? Thanks.

 

[marooned]

If you read around in this forum you will notice that socket a temps are inconsistent. That being said it's hard to know what is accurate or not, there are so many variables. My temps read about 44c under heavy load (prime95 torture test), and because of win98's acpi feature which uses the same functions as cpu idle, my temps drop to like 24c. Mikewarrior2 has a good page about socket a temps, I'll see if I can find the link for you. Btw, 47-49 isn't high if your cpu is under load..

 

[marooned]

Here's that link surfhead http://mikewarrior.freeservers.com/

 

[psykohog]

Mikewarrior2 is the heatsink God.If you need more help he will allways respond.

 

[AMD4ME2]

marooned - my PC used to run at low temps when idle as well.. 24C sometimes... well thru some trial and error.. and after installing win2k and having trouble with a game. I turned on "enhanced chip performance" in the bios. This solved my game lockups... but also put my idle temps to a more normal range. now I run 36-38C idle

 

[DanishGuy]

My 1 gig TB is running at 52 °C idle and 59 °C full load, using Asus A7V in a very small case...

As you probably know the A7V read somewhat more than other mobo's, so I'm not worried.

 

[marooned]

AMD4ME2, I have every possible performance enhancing feature turned on in the bios, execpt for @$#!@# AGP 4x I figure that I get more performance at 148 x 9.5 with agp 2x then I would at 140 x 10 with AGP 4x enabled.

 

[AMD4ME2]

Marooned - were you getting lockups running 4x? ive got an old geforce sdr card(elsa erazor X) and win2k.. running it at 4x. seems to be stable if I don't push the FSB up above 140, would lowering the agp to 2x help stability? I was getting hangs even when browsing if I went above 140fsb. thats with the KT7A-Raid 900tbird@1015 (145x7). right now im clocked at just about stock speed 133x7.5 933mhz.. haven't had a lockup yet. but I want those wicked cool memory benchmarks..