CPU Temp too hot!!

Are these temperature readings normal?
Board = Neo2-PFS
Bios = 3.6
CPU = 3.0C Northwood HT Enabled, no OC
FSB = 199
Room TEMP = 22 C
CPU IDLE TEMP = 55 C
CPU LOAD, GAME, ETC = 75 C
System Idle = 38 C
System Load, GAME, ETC = 48 C
I live in Hawaii by the ocean, but it's not that hot here. I monitored these temperatures at 4PM during a windy, cloudy day. My temps don't go below 50C on idle unless it's early in the morning, say 4-6AM when I'm doing papers before school.
Neo2-PFS
P4 3.0Ghz fsb800
2x512 Kreton PC3500 at 2.3.3.5.8 at 2.7V
SIS Xabre
Samsung 160GB, Seagate 40GB
Liteon LTR48125W
420 Watts PSU , 9 case fans (6 intake - 4 from front, 2 from side, 3 outtake - 2 to back, 1 to top)

Hi "dalnap"
Now I presume you are using the stock intel cooler that came with the P4.
Those temps are too high and I would definately not run your processor at load until we fix it just incase.
Now wot u need to do it reseat your heatsink on your processor.
This means you will have to take off the heatsink and clean it with any heatsink cleaner or isoproppyl alcohol till the old thermal pad or paste is removed
Then put a little bit of thermal paste in between the heatsink and the processor (about the size of a grain of rice) and put the heatsink back on top of the processor.
So if you havent got any you will need to buy some thermal paste, Artic Silver III is meant to be good but if you use that it voids your intel warrenty so buy any other descent thermalpaste.
For reference if you are using stock your CPU temps should be about:
Idle 40C
Load 60C (max)
Hopefully this helps otherwise there are many other experienced users that will help you!
Good Luck
SAspaz

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This is a known issue, discussed in many places. I find having my mini stand up on its side lowers the temperature considerably.
If I were you, I would have the cpu monitor on to see what app is using the cpu so much. Usually my mini runs cool except when rendering 3d scenes or compiling program code. Even well implemented games like Portal 2 or Trine don't cause much heat.
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Check your Activity Monitor in your Utilities for any runaway processes.
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Hello, everyone!
I just finished buidling my first computer. It has a 2.8 Northwood, and a Zalman flower heatsink CNPS7000A-Cu with Artic Silver 5 Thermal grease. From what I have heard people saying there usual temps are with this setup, I feel that mine are too high (?). I have a Wavemaster case with two 80mm sucking in and one 80mm blowing out, and the cpu fan does about 2800rpm max. After gaming for a few hours temps were about 49 for the cpu and high 30 for the case. right now it is idling about 35 in the case and 45 on the cpu. the ambiet temp is 68 F. The strangest thing happened after i let it sit a whole night off. In the morning when i tunrned it on, i checked the temperatures immediately in the bios. and the cpu was still 45C!, which is about 110F, 40F warmer than the room! I have the newest version of the bios, and i followed the artic silver and zlaman instructions exactly. is it possible i have damaged one or both of these sensors? I really appreciate any input or suggestions you have, and post questions is i need to clarify anything, i'm new
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Bejon2000,
On the Bios ver 3.20 and below the error reading is in -12 v but the temp looks fine, but in ver 3.5 corection has been made on -12v reading and the temp seems the same nothing change.
Bios 3.6 the cpu temp is much lower then the previous bios, this can be read on Speed fan and also in CPUZ the Vcore doesn't change in reading compare with the old bios.
Interesting to note bios 3.5 and below CC will read the lowest CPU temp in my computer is 49 c although the other software read lower. (it seems stuck on the lowest reading CPU temp). In bios 3.6 the CPU temp read lower and the CPU temp reading is change quickly (abruptly) which I thing not supposed to be in the heat transfer.(The bad thing is happen on speed fan also).
Yes you right about new Mobo is started with Bios 3.30 and not found in the web site, you can see the history of this mobo bios on the zip file of Bios ver.3.6.
Regarding the CPU temp. is better to put a real sensor on your cpu which can be read on the front panel so you can get some reference of this matter in relationship with the software reading. It not expensive and you can get it with casing which have this equipment.
The great thing about this Bios is actually on the DOT performance.
Hope this will help you.
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Hi
Like in you previous posting described the Toshiba power saver controls the CPU and fan usage.
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=12585
This software works great and if you use the notebook as prescribed, you shouldn't get any problems and overheating issues.
The problem is that you have changed all devices and parts on you notebook. The new parts are efficient but produce more warmness.
On the notebook you can cool the CPU with one little fan and if it doesn't last out, it's necessary to decrease the CPU performance.
This is a simple fact. All these functions can be set with power saver.
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I've done a lot of searching (both google and here) and I believe that I'm running too hot, but since this is my first experience with OCing I want to make sure so I'm posting here.
Anyway, I made a sig with all the info needed (I think), but I'm running at 2.3Ghz with an idle temp of about 49-51C and even with a medium amount of stress it gets up to 58C. From looking around this seems to be too hot. My guess is the thermal paste I used is crappy - no name crap from a local store. But that would only take it down about 5C, or so I've been told.
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I mounted a coolermaster aero 7 (suggested by coolg... thank you man) and works fine
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i personlly use the coolmaster aero 7
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Quote from: SpencerSteel on 20-September-06, 02:14:50
Hello there,
Another day and another couple of questions ...
1. I think my system may be too hot (or BIOS misreporting) ... i've had no problems with any software or crashes, it just looks too high in the BIOS (just a hunch)
It's a E6600 Dual Core chip ... and the BIOS says
Sys Temp: 37c/98f
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Now, I have a good, large akasa case, 2x12inch fans ... it's fairly cool in the room too ... (im in the UK! - it's always cool!) ...
There is one thing that it might be ... I had to replace my original mobo with this MSI one (for crossfire!) and I had to take out the processor/heatsink .. when I put it on the new board, I had to use fairly cheap Heat Sych paste which I got from an electronics shop ... I've heard people talking about silver and hi-quality paste ... does the quality of the paste between the chip and the heatsynch make a huge difference ? Could this be my problem ?
Or, is it all basically OK ?
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Your notebooks temperature is definitely not too high!
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Secondly the internal temperature changes permanently.
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Hi y'all,
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BUT! What temperature ranges should be be looking at for standard air cooling with a quality heatsink and fan? I am running the intel provided retail heatsink and fan atm as the much more expensive unit I bought (the SP-94) wouldnt fit in my case at all.
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Increasing the FSB provides for better system throughput, but just increasing the multiplier of the cpu does not, therefore, you might want to try decreasing the multiplier when you increase FSB.
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