CPU temperature

WillieDH

Folks

have a P4 HT Prescott, 3.2Ghz, running normally at 49 to 54 degrees C, is this normal or running too hot ?

feedback would be appreciated

thanks

W

Saruman

A little warm but not too bad. It is not going to burn out at that temp anyway.

tuxy

If thats 54C max under full load, thats fine.
Once it stays under 60 you should have no problem.
The p4 cpu's do run fairly hot.

WillieDH

Thanks guys, for the speedy response.

I got a new fan for the side of my case, should it be an input or output for air

Got 1 input fan on front of case and one at back

What do you think ?

christophicus

Teh fan at teh back should be an outake fan . You should have teh one on the side as an intake.

hopeful

christophicus wrote:

Teh fan at teh back should be an outake fan . You should have teh one on the side as an intake.

I'm going to have to come round and swap the 'h' and 'e' on your keyboard I think Agree on the statement though...side fan best as intake. Also make sure your heatsink is dust free as it can make quite a temperature difference.

WillieDH

Thanks for the advice guys

christophicus

hopeful wrote:

I'm going to have to come round and swap the 'h' and 'e' on your keyboard I think Agree on the statement though...side fan best as intake. Also make sure your heatsink is dust free as it can make quite a temperature difference.

Hah thanks for taking so much interest. I think it might be handy if you did!!:D

DaSilva

Just out of curiosity my laptop has a P4 cpu and under load runs up to 75C max usually hovers at 70C under load, idle and low load its around 40-50C.

Is there a chance of damage?

It's well known that this pos laptop overheats, just worried about permanent damage.

It's a Inspiron 5150.

WillieDH

Sh*t, installed the extra fan, now I hit 62 degrees C under load, 54 under normal.

Any idea's other than fitting a new cpu cooler ?, which I'm reluctant to do as i've no experience in doing that.

hopeful

Maybe try removing and reesating the cooler that is on there already. With some decent thermal grease it can work wonders. Failing that a new cooler could be got for €25-30 and are simple enough to fit.

Those Prescotts do run very hot...but 54c at idle is perhaps a tad warm.

I'd go for reseating your cooler and see if that makes a difference first before spending money.

zilog_jones

Room temperature can make a big difference as well - is it near a radiator or anything?

@DaSilva: That is pretty hot, but the laptop will switch off it gets to dangerous levels. My friend has a similar laptop and it was getting so hot it was regularly switching off - turns out it was full of dirt and crap inside so he got some friends to clean it out for him. Now it's grand... except the hard disk has bad sectors now (probably as a result of it running so hot for so many years).

I'd recommend this to you as well - there are disassembly instructions on the Dell website if you think you're up to it. It's especially likely to be caked with dirt inside if you're a smoker or there's smokers in your house - from my experience smokers' PCs are always the mankiest inside

WillieDH

Thanks Hopeful, yes think I'll have to venture into a new cooler.

So far I've case transplanted my stock FSC SCALEO into a Coolermaster case, fitted new PSU, graphics and X-Fi Fatal1ty sound

Guess I'm now going to be putting on a new cooler.

W

hopeful

zilog_jones wrote:

from my experience smokers' PCs are always the mankiest inside

'Tis true...the inside of my PC looks like an opium den

WillieDH

Got one of these coolers today, going to fit it at the weekend, what do you think , should it do the biz ?

christophicus

It looks ok. The arctic cooling pro series are supposed to be really good. maybe you could try taht instead.