cpu cooling issues, idle temp about 58c

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lochstar360

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Hello,

I found an old computer i had in the garage, and it had stock HP cooling and a Pentium 4 2.93ghz, when i re installed windows speedfan said that it was idling at about 58c, with fans on full. I think the reason for this was when i got it out of the garage i scraped off all of the 'gel' on the proccessor and the heatsink.

From what i have been told, 58c for a Pentium 4 idling is high, so would buying a new heatsink help, or would i have to buy a new heatsink and a thermal compound? if it would be better to buy a heatsink and thermal compound, what should i get if i only wanted to spend a maxmium price of $30 australian dollars?
I have found ASUS heatsinks for about $15 and was wondering if they would be better than the stock HP intel cooling....

Thanks for your help
 
Why would you scrape off the thermal compound in the first place? :confused:

Anyway, I'd get a second temp opinion using another temp-monitoring program, however big-brands aren't really known for their cooling capabilities and P4s ran warm to begin with, so it's very feasible. If you're looking for the cheapest way to lower the temp, just get a tube of thermal compound and re-apply it, keeping your current HSF.
 
All of the above are good suggestions, but if you really want to drop that P4's temps, look for this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118112
They also make an all copper version.
The higher clocked P4's do run warm, but the above heatsink should drop it to the 30C-40C idle range.
I've been using the above version and the copper version on 100's of builds since the thing first came out. It has kept both AMD and Intel processors very frosty.
It does come with thermal paste but I recommend using Arctic Silver instead.

Good luck!
 
The fact it has no thermal paste on the chip now would be why its running so hot. I would get a tube of it and you will notice temps drop fast.
I use a Celeron 2.8ghz stock heatsink on my old mans 2.8ghz P4 and it runs at 40c to 45c on highload.

Also CHECK THE FAN! I notice a lot of P4 chips have the fan where it sucks air through the heat sink vs pushing air through the sink. This causes temps to be higher too. I found this crappy issue on several PCs I have fixed for friends with over heating problems which had bargain brand PCs with P4 chips.
 
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