what temp should a intel 1.6 be running at

[TiGgErDbC]

my friend just had this comp built and the mobo on boot up says its running at 45-46 celcius, now i know thats way hot for an intel, plus the fan was only running at 2200 rpm.... witch i also know is slow... what should these be running at

sorry don't knwo the mobo, his dad ordered it but i'm concerned with those temps and speeds.

[pmasley]

Your CPU should not run over 36C unless it has been overclocked. The fan speed should be at least 4500. I have seen them as high as 5800. The slow fan is causing the high heat reading. Suggest securing a new ball-bearing fan. Be careful with the installation and make sure that you use the supplied contact grease sparingly, but evenly.

[dmoltrup]

Just to add my "two cents", the thermal grease is actually used to fill the microscopic pits on the surface of the processor and the bottom of the heatsink. It should be scraped off as thinly as possible.

[Fatal_Exception]

The simple answer is that you can tell if a P4 is too hot when you see a high temp AND the system shuts down. Otherwise, it is not too hot. A friend of mine was involved in the P4 design and he swears you can't damage a P4 by giving it too little cooling. Now if AMD would follow suit....

[Vernon Frazee]

Tom's Hardware: How Modern Processors Cope With Heat Emergencies (http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/heatvideo-01.html)

[Fatal_Exception]

Thanks for correction. I knew better and should have said "slows down" instead of "shuts down" My brain must have been overheated and my thinking slowed down....

I noticed the article mentioned operating the P4 at 29 degree C with a heat sink--I can't get ambient air at that temperature!

They didn't say what temperature caused the processor to slow down other than catastrophic heat sink loss. My friend told me that 60 deg C is unlikely to produce a noticeable slow down.