Athlon 1.2GHz reaches 80° Celsius!

[beet1e]

LOL, that's right. I was worried last summer, about 6 months ago, when it reached 67°. Now I'm getting ready to fry eggs on it, if it doesn't fry itself first. As I type this, it's running below threshold at a mere 72°.  It topped 80° last night after an AH session. I was doing a GV mission (though not a missun), and there were quite a few other GVs there. There were numerous flaming and smoking targets in my field of view, so quite a bit of rendering going on. To top it all, I shot and killed Ripsnort, and I think this was the reason the processor was running so hot - it was calculating how many GV perks I deserved to get - lol.

I've checked everything. The fans are all working but it just seems to be getting hotter and hotter. I'm secretly hoping it will burn out, so I can get a new Asus A7V8X, Athlon XP2100 and PC3200 DDR400 memory.

The cleaning lady's Athlon XP1800 runs at a cool 47°. I'm thinking next time I might replace my desktop case and get a tower - with multiple fans. I'd be able to stand it on the floor - on the carpet - lol!  Nah, I'd get a piece of ¾" chipboard to stand it on.

[buzkill]

and a couple more heat sinks

[Wlfgng]

guess we won't be hearing from beetle soon

[Hajo]

Beetle

Had an athlonXP1600  ran at 57C

Get a Volcano heatsink and fan, preferably copperbased like the thermaltake 6Cu or Volcano 7.  They'll cool your athlon nicely

Running an XP2400 now and runing at 47 C with the thermaltake Volcano 7

[Defiance]

H2o

Dig one of these up from breakers/scrapyard n clean her up
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anthony.sutton2/DSCF0150.JPG

Buy a cheap pump a cooling block or make ya own add some tubing and voila nice quiet cooling

[JB73]

get a bigger tower W/more fans....

also check the power supply fan.

mine quit and processor got to 120c

everything fine now... got a "chieftec" tower 5 case fans
3 fans on 520watt power supply
solid copper heatsink (only $32)

now my XP1900 running @ about 34c steady

[vorticon]

you sure your fans are spinning fast enough???

try turning the computer off for a couple hours...no matter what anyone says this is NOT harmfull to your computer its more harmfull if you leave it on because it will never get a chance to properly cool...they add a couple more fans a heat sink take the casing off sit it by a window and put one of those big desk fans so that it blows straight through the computer...

im joking of course

[SKurj]

Just buy the upgrade.... no point in waiting for it to die as it most surely will...

I runnin an XP1800 @ XP1900 spec at 47 deg under load..


SKurj

[beet1e]

I think I'm going to upgrade, with a new (tower) case. The last one I built had three fans in the case. The Asus A7V8X that I'll get has "Q-Fan" - a method by which the mobo can regulate the speed of the fans according to demand.

[beet1e]

Decided to reinstall the Asus Probe software... During install, noticed the attached CPU threshold temperature recommendation.  Max 95° for the CPU.  But note the intended range: 64 to 95.  Much hotter than the latest XP1800+ processors.

[DAVENRINO]

Beetle,
I believe That top window is the user-defined threshlod for the high temp warning.  No need to have a warning ablove 95 cause computer will prolly already be a smokin heap.
DJ229;)

[Defiance]

Hiya's
Bear in mind on "older" asus mobo's they overestimated core temps by approx 10c (a7v and some latter variants to name a few)

This in mind still doesnt explain the high temps

Can you carefully open side/top whatever and carefully feel the actual HSF temp ??
I had 2 asus mobos and did this when i got a 55c reported temp, But on feeling i found the temps werent anywhere near 55c
Then i did some bb searching and found asus's overestimated readings

I know most sensors are a probe inside the ZIF socket but again if mem serves me right asus use a chip that's central to the ZIF socket so there is no actual physical probe/core touching (maybe on your mobo there is a probe, if so bend it upwards a tad so it will deff touch the underside of the cpu

I know cpu's allow hellofa heat before they die but sheesh ya gotta be near that threshold  lol

Then again whatever is reading the temps (if touching the HS is coolish this is) maybe Fubar'd

If you want a decent Full Tower and are on a budget here ya go i got 2 links ..........
http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=030125195818715&moduleno=22742&modulecode=

£49.99 and a 300w psu and hellofasize

http://security.cclcomputers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Standard_Tower_26.html

ATX Case 2004 Full Tower
£24.24 but NO psu

EDIT link for better view on the NO psu case http://www.pcmodshop.com/products/cases/030040020/030040020.htm

[-ammo-]

Beetle-

My xp 1600 used to frequently get to 60C using a volcano 6 sink and fan. I upgraded to an antec sink abnd fan and no I stay around 40-42 C under load.  However, the temps will get higher over time but a quick vacumm job of all the dust around the case, case fans, and most importantly the CPU sink and fan brought the temps back down again.

[beet1e]

...it was the power supply. Damn thing is not even a year old. The fan was not turning. I cleaned out as much dust as I could, but it was no good. So went and got a replacement this afternoon.  Things are much cooler now - see attached pic.

Thanks to all who helped.

[JB73]

Originally posted by beet1e
...it was the power supply. Damn thing is not even a year old. The fan was not turning. I cleaned out as much dust as I could, but it was no good. So went and got a replacement this afternoon.  Things are much cooler now - see attached pic.

Thanks to all who helped.

good to hear ..... but i hope you considered all i said in my post. get a good power supply that has @ least 2-3 fans. also more room in your case will really help airflow.

Ps. what do i get?