What is normal temp for my system---plz help i think it mite be high

[niwi7]

Well....I open my computer to see if I have an extra pci slot the other day...and notice it feels REALLY hot! So i go into the bios and find out it says it is Motherboard temp: 36 C and 96.5 F...is this high? This is what i got---

Athlon XP 1800+
80 Gig Western Digital HDD 7200 RPM
40 Gig Western Digital HDD 7200 RPM
Acer Burner 24x
Acer CD-ROM
512 DDR Ram
Like 4 or 5 PCI cards (sb live card, wintv card, firewire, ethernet, usb)
Geforce2 MX 400 (but I have a Siluro Geforce4 Ti4200 on the way from newegg.com)

so is this a good temp for this shiznacks? If its overly low then maybe i should overclock this somehow(???) Any help would be appreciated thanks

oh btw kinda off topic but whats the clock speed of the xp 1800+ and would i benefit to upgrade that? thanks alot

 

[Malladine]

That's well within normal operating temperature for that system. I have way less and mine runs at 30 C

 

[brucehao]

Actually 36*C for a mobo sounds kind of high to me.

What are you using to cool your case?

 

[niwi7]

im using whatever came with it lol im not sure how do i find out? i downloaded some program called speedfan or seomting and it had like 6 diff temps and most were high around 60 and one of them was 120!!! i think its wrong thou sounds really weird

 

[everman]

Motherboard manager can read temps, but keep in mind that any temp reading via software is not 100% accurate. That temp is fine, although there are some people who are obsessed with the lowest temp possible.