Wondering about CPU temperature

Hello, my system specifications are below, I am cooling the CPU with the retail heatsink (dont know but I think it is the first version, it has a copper circle which is in the aluminium block, the fan is AMD one, and it runs at ~4800rpm.
All temps in Celsius.
The temperature never gets over 55 degrees, and idling it is ~39 degrees. Are these readings right? Because I thought and have read that AMD processors get usually hotter than this.
If they are right, then I am happy haha. Anyway I am looking forward a Volcano 12.

temps are fine

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    Last edited by fm (2012-01-06 09:32:01)

    samuvuo wrote:
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    Last edited by fm (2012-01-06 13:43:05)

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