Temperature of Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz 505J

[goldendrag0n]

Hi guys, need a little help here. I've been searching the net for the past few days to find the normal operating temperature of the P4 2.66 Ghz 505J chip, but I can't seem to find the answer. I have a suspicion that my chip is running hotter than normal, but I can't confirm. It's idle at aroun 53-60 degrees C, but at full load, it's hit 73 degrees C. So I'm wonderin' if these new chips run that that hot, or if there's somethin' funky with mine. BTW, my case temp is usually around 32-40 degrees C. Can somebody help???

 

[rgreen83]

Im pretty sure thats not too far off for a prescott if you are using the stock HSF. You could probably use some more case flow though, that would help your cpu temps too. Your case temp is higher than my cpu temp.

 

[Mistabullet]

I have an older northwood at 2.6Ghz, this idle's at 38C - 39C and around 53C after playing BF2 for 10+ minutes. So im guessing 73C is wayyy to hot. BTW im on stock heatsink and fan + this thing is about 3 years old so im sure even my temps are a bit too high then what its suppose to be. I'm not sure if northwood is suppose to run cooler then prescott but if it isn't then you have a problem. Maybe a nice XP90-C will help

 

[BitByBit]

Is this a pre-built system, or did you build it yourself?
My 3.0GHz Prescott hits 67C under load (all of a sudden, that doesn't seem so bad), so yours should in theory run cooler than that, given that it's a slower Prescott.
If you built it yourself, you may have not installed the heatsink correctly, or not applied thermal grease.

 

[goldendrag0n]

thanks for the input guys... and BBB, I did built it myself but it's retail boxed with the HSF already havin' some thermal grease on there... I guess I gotta go by some expensive thermal grease from Fry's when I drop by there to return some stuff.