What temperature is normal on a cpu?

[pancho619]

I have a golden orb on my p3-650 and I was wondering what a standard temperature with these things is? My temp. is reading at 42 degrees Celsius....is that normal? Seems a bit high to me? Also, what cooler can I use to bring this down?


-- pancho619

 

[Mikewarrior2]

what heatsink are you using now? Since you're using an Intel Board(and all intel boards support thermal diode readings), the temps are fairly accurate.

Are you overclocked at all? Your temps really aren't anything to worry about, but if you're not overclocking, they are on hte warm side. A taisol or orb will cool your chip down(probably significantly).


Mike

 

[Fardringle]

Since you're using a Golden Orb, that temperature is about right while under load, although they could be lower - what kind of thermal paste are you using, and have you tried reseating the Orb to make sure it's installed correctly?

 

[VladTrishkin]

You NEVER want to be above 50C...

 

[abracadabra1]

42 is quite high.
hopefully you don't go over 50C otherwise the proteins in your chip will denature and the chip will be useless!

try getting some more air flowing through your case.
make sure you don't have ltos of dangling wires too.

 

[Rigoletto]

Hey guys if what you say is true how come I'm browsing right now at 55C?
Still, QIII is crashing...

 

[pancho619]

Sorry, been at school, just got a chance to check my e-mail. I'm running a golden orb on my cpu right now, but no thermal paste. I'm assuming I should get some paste, although I'm planning on ordering an alpha w/ silver arctic thermal paste, that should do the trick. I'm not o/c my system right now, just running it straight at 650, but I will o/c my system this weekend, which is why I'll need new alpha and paste. I hope my temperature will go down significantly because 42 seemed a little high to me. Thanks for everyone's input.

-- pancho619

 

[Valvoline6]

42* seems high to me, especially without overclocking and just surfing. Right now I'm running at 31* @ 933. You should have some kind of thermal paste between the cpu and heatsink. I don't know that Artic Silver is needed, if you get an Alpha and it includes thermal grease it will probably be fine. I get the same temp with the AS that I got with the included thermal paste.

I think abracadabra was making one of those vague Dennis Miller style humurous references. There isn't much protein in a PIII. I just checked the Nutritional Values on the side of my PIII box- 0% Protein. I don't recommend eating the processor anyway...

 

[Klosters]

Props to ThermalTake! They make the best bang for buck HSF's in history. While their design is stolen from HP, they still look really nice.

That said, they just ain't made for serious OCing. Period. If you really need to cool down that "nitro'd" processor, Alpha is the best.

 

[Assimilator1]

VladTrishkin

I suppose your referring to just the PIII coppermines?