Cpu too hot?

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zhenlilu2003

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i have an Asus P5GD1 mobo, with Intel P4 530J 3.0GHz, and i used the Asus Probe Utility that comes with the mobo driver CD, and saw that the CPU temp is 60 degrees celcius, while the mobo temp is 48 degrees. Is that too hot?
 
My friend also has an P4 3.0 GHz, and he says his is around 60 degrees celcius, so I am pretty sure that is normal.
 
That's a Prescott so it will tend to run hot, but you might want to consider a cooling upgrade if you are still running a stock HSF and game with it.
 
That's a Prescott so it will tend to run hot, but you might want to consider a cooling upgrade if you are still running a stock HSF and game with it.
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the prescott only had heat issues with socket 478. This is a lga775

60 for a cpu is hot, it that idle temperature.

Try reseating the hsf and replacing thermal paste
 
I have a P4 530 as well, when I was running with the stock cooler it idled @~35 on hot days (when it hits 25+deg inside my house), so something is amiss.
 
I have pentium 4 530 too and ive just installed my new 90mm zalman heatsink/fan but mines idling at 50c and it isnt even hot in my room, whats going on? i cleaned the cpu before adding the new paste, when running winamp and spybot at the same time last night the temp got all the way to 62c, it was cooler before i installed this new fan :confused:
 
hmmm i looked at the pictures, i dont see any thermal paste on the cpu, just looks like a cpu without thermal paste on lol :s, my thermal paste is white and covers the wrting on the cpu, i can still see the writing on the cpu on yours :confused: or are you supposed to spread it so thinly its sposed to look like there is not any on, in that case i think ive added way too much, sorry im a bit confused
 
hmmm i looked at the pictures, i dont see any thermal paste on the cpu, just looks like a cpu without thermal paste on lol :s, my thermal paste is white and covers the wrting on the cpu, i can still see the writing on the cpu on yours or are you supposed to spread it so thinly its sposed to look like there is not any on, in that case i think ive added way too much, sorry im a bit confused
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there is a blob of artic silver in the middle of his cpu, it hasn't been spread around yet because they just wanted to show you how much to apply. Then if shoud be spread around.
The white stuff you have is common too, it often come free with your retail cpu/hsf.
You should spread it so thin that you just cant see the writing
 
oh ok, sorry prob didnt look close enough at the picture, and yeh i think ive added too much, well at first all i added was a thin layer of antec thermal paste but when i got into bios, the temp was running at nearly 60 c, so i added some of the thermal paste i got with the zalman fan on top of the antec paste to make it a bit thicker, could it be ive added too much or that i mixed the 2 pastes together? its a zalman heatsink and fan combo by the way its not the biggest one you can get which i think is 120mm, mine is 90mm with a blue led light, is it adequate enough for a lga775 pentium cpu chip? sorry for all the questions im just a bit stuck on what to do. cheers
 
Yeah, don't mix them. whenever you take the heatsink off, clean the old stuff off and put new on
 
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