ATHLON XP 1600+ EXTREMELY HOT !!!

[Kurylo]

My friend bought an Athlon XP 1600+ system.
The temps using CPUBURN is 75 Celsius !!!
With a 8000RPM gigant Maxtron cooler !!!
WTF?

[KissmyDonkey]

Originally posted by Kurylo
My friend bought an Athlon XP 1600+ system.
The temps using CPUBURN is 75 Celsius !!!
With a 8000RPM gigant Maxtron cooler !!!
WTF?

did you put some thermal paste on the CPU and then put the HSF on and then remove it to make sure you are getting full contact?

I have heard cases of HSF leaving a small gap sometimes...

[Kurylo]

Of course !!!
I've done that 1000 times. But this is a first AthlonXP ...

[NDD]

Are you 100% sure this HS/F is certified for Socket A/AMD ?! Many Socket 370/Socket 423/478 (Intel) coolers would also fit Socket A, but some might just leave tiny small gap, not allowing proper heat dissipation.
What's the ambient room temp ?

[Bullet-Man-2]

Originally posted by ND
Are you 100% sure this HS/F is certified for Socket A/AMD ?! Many Socket 370/Socket 423/478 (Intel) coolers would also fit Socket A, but some might just leave tiny small gap, not allowing proper heat dissipation.
What's the ambient room temp ?

maybe he lives in africa...

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Originally posted by Kurylo
My friend bought an Athlon XP 1600+ system.
The temps using CPUBURN is 75 Celsius !!!
With a 8000RPM gigant Maxtron cooler !!!
WTF?

Are you sure it is really this hot. I mean have you touched it to see. At that temp. it should be obvios. I would try another temp monitor just because that temp is hard to believe. Might be a error- have you checked the bios temp. to see if it is close? It takes a while for the cpu to cool. It can only drop a few C between boots so I would run full load stress test and then reboot and compare to bios temps. Thats how I found out the Asus probe was wrong. On a P4 1.5(yes its not a Northwood I know) I was running like 40-50c on boot and 60c on full load. I knew something was wrong. Checked bios and it said way dif. Wrote the forum and others thought the same. Now my temps are reading 27c on cpu as I type. The forum pointed towards useing HW mon and I havent gone back to Asus probe. Great little prog.

If bios says its this hot you totally got me baffled!!!!!!!!:(

[Kurylo]

I've touched the HSF. It is very warm.
The ambient room temps are near 20C
The cooler is fit properly. It is designed for Athlons.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Are you sure the vcore is set right? Maybe a bad cpu or mobo? Can you swap another xp in to see?

[shark_megabyte]

You're not letting him go on running it at that temp are you?

My P4 1.6a's max safe temp is listed as 66C! I would think 75 for an Athlon is really pushing it!

Can you get a separate hardware thermal sensor of any kind close to the cpu or heatsink base to get an independent reading? Maybe the motherboard's thermal sensor for the cpu is just skewed very high....

I've been thinking... If it is really that hot, shouldn't you see some instability in any demanding Windows apps?

[msanc024]

If you have checked the HSF, the VCore and have put thermal paste, there is obviously something wrong with this particular CPU or Motherboard. :(

Go to the shop and replace the CPU by a new one. If the problem persists, try changing the motherboard.

The max temperature of an Athlon is 95ºC.

[Alnath]

I've touched the HSF. It is very warm Good job really, if it was cold it would be doing anything.

my guess is either you have put the HSF on the wrong way round and the clip isnt applying pressure on the core OR the cooler isnt XP compatable, the XP core is slightly lower than the Thunderbird core was.

Go look here at this LINK (http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm) for max temps.

[Kurylo]

Thanks, I'll see for compatibility with XP.

[araaraara]

My AthlonX P 1600+ only gets to 50C at max load with the Vcore at 1.850v and it overclocked to 1.6ghz. I'm using Volcano5 thermal paste, but even with the thermal pad it didn't get that hot.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Yes something is def. wrong. Its probably so simple that you are totally overlooking it. That is usually my problem. Then I go duh I figured it out!:D

[Kurylo]

Not so fast with OCing !!!
The CPU was working for 2 days at 2*100FSB (1050MHz), until I came. And the temps on such frequency was 66C !!!

[Kurylo]

It is rather strange, isn't it?

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Could def. be a bad cpu or mobo! Haveing to underclock to keep temp. down is a sign. Are you sure yet that is a XP heatsink. Did you use a shim? If so is it hanging the HS up from touching flat? When you look at the HSF is it parallel to the chip surface and not tilted?:confused:

[Kurylo]

I've done HSF installation that several times on several systems. But that is the first time when I have such problem. BTW, newer had an experience with AthlohXP's.

[Bogg]

Hmms, several of my friends has had bad temperatursensors in there mobo's, Giving them temps at about 90-100 degrees, and the computer was rock solid at that point, if it really was that high the cpu would have fried, right?`

They then changed the mobo and the temps dropped to about 40C...so...could always be a flaky mobo...