CPU temp.....

You guys have crazy temps! jeez! my 3200+ will only get up to 40c. Idle is about 32c. I only have stock cooling! do you guys have them nest to your furnace or something? I have my comp upstairs, which means hotter, in Wyoming during the spring- 80f+ every day. I dont get it!
 
On a relatively new system you won't see any hardened thermal compound unless there was something wrong with the batch that soon. The Cooler here has been on since last fall. But when I go to reeeat that again soon the original thermal pad on the 3rd party cooler may be just a lttle stiff where some cleaning or rubbing alcohol will get that off quick anyways. A good seating and bonding won't take that long. You will notice a small difference over a period of days/weeks depending on how many hours the system runs within a 24hr. time frame. The system here nearly 16hrs. a day.
 
After the first 3hrs. today mine is seen at 50-52C idle. This is what has been seen lately due to the stock pad starting to give out. But idle as I stated earlier was at 38-39C with a high load seeing 44-46C until a few months saw a gradual increase. With an Atholon or Sempron Socket A cpu you can slide for a period of time until you start seeing sudden slowdowns and lockups due to running hotter while gaming. Mine is overdue for reseat with 52C seen when at idle.
 
Hi guys, my CPU is still hovering in the 40's and at full load it is hovering in the 50's... I hope people say that's ok (I hope) :(
I've read certain reviews with the HSF combo that I have in other websites and generally a lot of other people have said their CPU's have had temps that have been similar to mine and they seem happy with it..
However I'd like some more feedback from you guys as I rate this forum the best :) (Iam not creeping,honest) :P However I have ordered some Artic Silver 5 thermal paste that YOU guys have recommended!
Even though I have replaced the original thermal pad with some cheap thermal paste with some noticable lower temps I will try the Artic Silver 5 and see what happens. What do you guys think?
 
If you are going to be reseating with cheap compound then Artic Silver later you could have saved some effort by going with a better then stock HSF. I still haven't had a chance to redo the one here with 50C idle and 53C loaded due to trying to get someone's eMachine running again. It's fun when you can't even get into the bios to change the boot order after wiping the drive clean. The temps with the Sempron there are better then this one however.
 
The one I have to reseat here that goes onto different types of sockets can be seen at http://www.coolerguys.com/840556035589.html For a short period you could hear the fan vibrate when the speed was up during gaming. Now you wouldn't even hear it when it's cranked up. For a newer model board however I would look over a few others like http://www.coolerguys.com/840556058274.html (posted earlier) That can be found among several that will also go on Socket A model boards at http://www.coolerguys.com/socket7370a.html
 
lower voltage a bit. i would say don't let it go over 50C and 1.55V vcore, just to be safe. 90nm right? if its 130nm then i'd say dont go over 60C and 1.6V
just so you know, voltage causes more heat... but voltage will kill your cpu at any temperature.

It's also important to note that long term, it's not heat that kills a CPU but rather voltage ... this explains why some guy with a Vapochill unit keeping his box at -10C can still fry his CPU. When you start pushing the Vcore a lot (i.e., say by 0.4v+) you run the risk of long term damage. Same dealy goes for RAM.
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taken from our own oc101 in this section
http://www.computerforum.com/showpost.php?p=106907&postcount=7

and your official oc101 thanks to praetor
http://computerforum.com/showthread.php?t=16346
 
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Loading the defaults in the bios should readily take care of any voltage issue if there is no OCing going on. If the idle temp is between 44-46C that would be normal for a Socket A with climbing to about 50-51C loaded with the stock setup. The current vcore here on an Atholon XP3200+ is 1.73v according to SpeedFan without seeing any hangups. But that was after loading the optimized defaults.
 
Hi guys, I had contacted AMD themselves and told them about my idle temp of around 46'C... Here is the reply:
Dear customer,

Thank you for contacting AMD.
For this CPU (AMD Sempron 2800+ socket A) the maximum temperature is 90'C. 46'C is a very good temperature, there's no need to worry. Everything under 75-80'C should not cause any harm to the CPU.

Regards
Anna Pytka
AMD TSC

PS That's from the experts.. what do you guys think?
 
u.k.man said:
Hi guys, I had contacted AMD themselves and told them about my idle temp of around 46'C... Here is the reply:
Dear customer,

Thank you for contacting AMD.
For this CPU (AMD Sempron 2800+ socket A) the maximum temperature is 90'C. 46'C is a very good temperature, there's no need to worry. Everything under 75-80'C should not cause any harm to the CPU.

Regards
Anna Pytka
AMD TSC

PS That's from the experts.. what do you guys think?
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As I stated earlier the older Socket A models have a higher threshold for temps then the newer 64bit models which max at 70C. The Atholon XP3200+ in use here has seen 61C right up to 73C when the thermals let go on the stock. Having just reseated the Scythe Kantana with a 92cm fan mounted on top the temp is stable at 54C at the moment. When the Antec version of Artic Silver 5 gets settled that should drop right down even lower then yours.
 
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