Hey, Having some major problems with my Athlon XP 2000+. It's sitting around 75 degrees celcius. It's got a TT 9 heat sink/cpu fan on it, running at 4000 rpm (it goes higher, but turning the fan up doesn't change the temp at all after about 4000rpm). I've got 2 pci-slot exhaust fans and an intake fan at the back of the case. I have the whole side panel taken off the case - yet i'm still getting these crazy temperatures. On a hot day, it gets up to 82 degrees! Full specs: Athlon XP 2000+, Gigabyte K7 Triton mobo, 640 MB SDRAM, GeForce4 ti4200.

did you use any thermal paste between the cpu and heatsink?

Im am using a Athlon XP 2100+ and heat on my was reaching 78c max, recently changed my HSF to a volcano 9 and temps don't go any higher than 60c Athlon XP CPU's burn out at 95c so you better get a better HSF my fan is currently running at 5532rpm with temps at 56c ( room temp 30.5c ( Boiling in here ) A new HSF should fix your problem Goodluck Blavod

I dont think you used the Thermal paste or didnt apply it on the north bridge of the cpu or something. There is no reason it should burn that hot IMO I overclocked @ school as an experiment, a XP 2800 to almost 4 ghz using a tray of Liquid Nitrogen as coolant. And it didnt even get that hot until after 4 hours.

What school do you go to? They buy XP2800+ machines and provide liquid nitrogen? LOL I have yet to see anyone OC to 4 GHz speed. Not to say that it's not possible, just saying it's "HIGHLY improbable."

Tom's Hardware got a 3.06Ghz P4 up to 4 Ghz. www.tomshardware.com As far as your cooling problems, I'm running an Athlon XP 2400+ and it runs between 29C and 36C depending on room temp and whether I overclock it or not. I can overclock it by 133Mhz and it won't go over 36C. I have a Coolermaster HHC-001 heatsink with the 7000rpm fan that comes with it. Also, the case and case fan setup play a big part in your temps... I have a Chieftech case (exactly like the Alienware cases) and I have 2 80mm fans in from blowing inwards, and 2 80 mm fans in the back blowing out..it creates a wind tunnel effect. Also, the power supply has 2 fans in it blowing out. As far as thermal paste goes, I'm using Antec Reference Silver paste. I would check out how your case fans are setup, and check your thermal paste...there is a right way to put it on, and alot of wrong ways. Check Toms hardware for soem info on this stuff and some of the overclocking guides have great info on how to do alot of this stuff. Good luck.

Not sure the above dudes acutally had an Athlon 2100XP I have a Volcano 8 Cooler with copper bottom on top of mine and it runs b/t 5000 and 5440rpm. I get 53(idle)-63(hard gaming) deg. C. This is normal for this processor. Factory fan is just sufficient if no o/c will be done... ever.... Use the below as a guide to keeping your AMD cool: 1) It helps to have 2 case fans. 2) I like to remove the heatsink thermal tape crap as it just seems to melt on top of the processors anyway. I cleaned the top of the processor (carefully) and the bottom of the heatsink very well. Applied hs compound to the top of the cpu's little metal protrusion. 3) Alignment is very important, make sure its seated in the proper direction there's a ledge that should align with the processors seat ledge. When hooking cpu fan to my motherboard I put on the inside latches (while hovering the body of the fan, align the fan (pull it to the now latched side) and make sure aligned correctly. Visually check its straight with cpu socket, also Then lower the fan and clip in the other end (this is best to do in the mobo box on top of the foam some fans require you to press pretty hard. 4) Get the latest bios. My msi ami bios is flashed by booting to windows me disk and copying bios + flash utility to rom drive me creates, then running flash program. Your mobo manufaturer will have details on their site. 5) Ram doesnt make cpu hotter. But it can halt or crash system if your bios ram speed settings are too high for it. pc2700 ddr ram should be certified to run at 333 data rate (says 333 in bios) 6) Update Windows to latest SP. XP original release doesn't know about 2100 temps so it will be sensitive about starting with a 58C cpu. 7) My mobo comes with a fan cooler utility that adjusts current to the fan to speed it up when needed. See if yours does as well. 8) Bios cpus settings. An AMD 2100 should be set to 133 FSB. If your temps are to hot for it to boot try lowering it to 100. It will only give you a 1500+XP performance but you'll be working... 9) If still getting high temps (67C+) You can also hook fans right to the power supply so it always runs at full speed (just loose fan/temp info). Motherboards can vary the cpu fan speed depending on temp.