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CPU Temprature?
Name: fazz Date: August 5, 2004 at 07:12:56 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Duron 1.9Ghz
Comment:
Can anyone please tell me what kind of temp an AMD Duron @1.9Ghz, should be running at. I'm currently getting 63C when there's no load on the processor, is this normal?
Name: zorki1c Date: August 5, 2004 at 08:26:03 Pacific
Reply:
63C with no load is a little hot. I like to keep my Athlon in the low to mid 40c range. First, make sure your bios is the latest version available and the temp reading are accurate. If they are, make sure your heatsink hasn't collected a lot of dust that is keeping it from working efficiently.
If you can measure case temperature, check it. If it's within five-10 degrees of the cpu temp then you have a case cooling problem--need more fans or whatever.
Room temperature is also a factor. Obviously you can't get the case temperature lower that the temp of the air that's being pulled into the case.
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Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: August 5, 2004 at 09:30:54 Pacific
Reply:
Excellent advice from Zorki1c. 63C is higher than it should be.
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Response Number 3
Name: fazz Date: August 5, 2004 at 09:40:53 Pacific
Reply:
The Heatsink is clean, the BIOS was updated about 2 months ago, could i try taking it off and applying some new thermal grease?
I've checked the other fans in the system and they are all working fine.
I'll try some new thermal grease.
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Response Number 4
Name: paul Date: September 15, 2004 at 14:17:24 Pacific
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