my bios tells me im 70c on this chip? i got a new big fan on this cpu so y so damn hot? wots the best way to cool her down?

have u got thermal compund on is that a fulll load tem or no load temp my 1.1 b4 it died was runin bout 56 no load and 67-68 full load if that a load temp u prob just need some new thermal paste

ok i got an xp 1.00ghz amd on a ga-7zxr mobo with 896mb 133 ram, a rad 9700 pro vid card , a 300w atx psu, on windows xp, my cpu temp after a few hours gaming is 73c, sys temp is 36c, cpu speed is 5553, v.core 1.727? is this normal? it used to run fine b4? i only ran 400+ ram on pc100 with a 230w psu before? now things start to crash?

XP 1.0Ghz? There is no such animal...either you have a 1.0Ghz Athlon T-bird, or you have an Athlon XP 1500+, but it's running at 100FSB instead of 133FSB. If your temp reading is accurate, it's running too hot. Try getting it up to temp, then shutdown & carefully touch the heatsink to see how warm it really is. 70C (158F) is pretty hot! If it only feels warm, your temp reading is off. Are you having any stability problems? blue screens? lockups? random reboots? Are you sure your HSF was installed properly? Was thermal paste used? Hopefully not too much or too little. What about case cooling?

That heatsink must not be making good contact with the processor. I once used a thermal pad I pulled off an old pentium (looked like a Yugo floor mat) and couldn't reach 70°C on a 1.4Gig Athlon. I'd have a look at the AMD install videos and try the operation again. Skip

for a full and i mean full load on a 1.1 tbird bout 68-70 is ok no no no no nono ther isnot a xp 1.1 uless of cores u have what jam says bout 60 4 no load on t bird

ok, i got a ga-7zxr but it wont run at fsb133 which means my Amd xp1700 wont run at full speed, now i had a thundrbird 1.0 ghz in b4 at 100mhz, will i get any increased cpu performance using 1700xp running it at 100mhz?