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Originally posted by junglistic
uh oh..
im running a athl xp 1800+,
and she sits around 60-65 C when doing normal stuff and up to 70 C under gaming.
is this a problem i should look into? ive never crashed or shown any slowdown or anything.
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I'd take a look at the CPU heatsink-fan and see if it's installed correctly with the right amount of thermal grease. Mine runs at 55-60 celsius and up to 63 under load, but it's not overclocked, so I'm not worrying about anything. It's been that way for a year. I bought a newer CPU heatsink fan a few months ago and it lowered it about 5 degrees. The default Athlon XP CPU heatsink fan should be doing fine. What's your motherboard's thermal shutdown? If it stays under that (it obviously is) then I'd say it's fine. Overclockers prefer it to be under 60 celsius, but for non-overclockers 70 is probably alright. I'd buy a better CPU heatsink fan just to be sure, but that's up to you! Sometimes a system is simply never gonna be as cool as you want it. It depends on the airflow in your case BIG time as well.
-Lasereth
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Last edited by Lasereth; 12-27-2003 at 06:41 AM..
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