Viewing Thread:
"P4 Temperature and Cooling"

Just got my P4 3.2 Prescott and Abit IC7-G working and am worried as my old AMD 2.6 used to run a 50oC and never had and problems the new prescott is running at 60oC and am worring if this is running to hot. As when running the abit fan settings it was testing the fan and the chip overheated and shut down, it is still working fine but very hot.

I know the new Prescott runs hot but though it should run fine as have not overclocked it and am using the intel heatsink and fan. I also have one 80mm fan taking hot air out of the pc case. would the p4 run ok at 60oC or is this dangerously high.

Any recommendation would be great, cheers

have just got it set up, the instructions are well short and missing important information about the fan power. but anyway case is now running about 22.5oC - 24oC and the CPU is running at 40-45oC and i am happy with that. thanks for all your advice

That sounds about right oasismark, considering you use the stock cooler (I think anyway) which isn't going to be as good as a third party one.

when i check last night again it was CPU 62oC and Case 53oC have just bought the case that i mentioned before just got to rebuild. cheers for all your suggestions everyone.

The CPU temperature is relative to the case temperature. For example, on my XP3200 at work is a standard AMD heatsink and fan. The case runs at 21c, basically room temperature, because it's one of those massive Chieftec Dragons. However, the CPU is at about 50c (it runs SETI). This means that with a stock AMD HSF, you get about +30c on the case temp. So, if your case temperature is ~55, that means your CPU will be running around 85c! This is above spec for an AMD CPU these days.

tigamilla wrote:
> klasovdan_1 wrote:
> the temperature inside my case is 45oC
>
> Thats WAAAAY too high, good case temparatures are around 30-32C.

That's still too high! At night mine are 22-23C.

so that case should be able to keep the temp down so what is a good temperature for the cpu to be running at and can if be done with the standard intel HSF.

My P4 used to run at 60C.

Hmmm...

I use(d) a Coolermaster Aero 7.

Ran at 54 or so.

Still, ten degrees difference is big.

As in notoriously.

Heh I remember when my case was high 50's, because all my components were directly cooled with external air.

klasovdan_1 wrote:
> the temperature inside my case is 45oC

Thats WAAAAY too high, good case temparatures are around 30-32C.