Hey all - the other week I built my brother a new computer (Suprise suprise, his 800MHz P3 Dell running XP wasn't cutting it for his engineering programs anymore).
Build went great and über smooth, but when I went into the BIOS, the CPU was idling (in BIOS at startup) around 50-53C.
Now, that just seems ridiculously hot to me - I've never had issues with cooling other than my laptop (Hypersonic GX7 - 3.4 P4 HT EE, Idles @56C in Windows).
His board is: MSI 865PE NEO2-V, Socket 478.
Processor: Celeron D 340 Prescott 533MHz FSB - 2.93GHz (Retail)
RAM: 1gb Rosewill (2x512mb) PC3200
Video: Rosewill GeForce FX5200 128mb AGP8x
I used the stock Heatsink with the stock square of thermal compound on it - I've used it before in my budget machines without this problem before.
Any ideas? All fans work, heatsink is securely attached, etc.
Build went great and über smooth, but when I went into the BIOS, the CPU was idling (in BIOS at startup) around 50-53C.
Now, that just seems ridiculously hot to me - I've never had issues with cooling other than my laptop (Hypersonic GX7 - 3.4 P4 HT EE, Idles @56C in Windows).
His board is: MSI 865PE NEO2-V, Socket 478.
Processor: Celeron D 340 Prescott 533MHz FSB - 2.93GHz (Retail)
RAM: 1gb Rosewill (2x512mb) PC3200
Video: Rosewill GeForce FX5200 128mb AGP8x
I used the stock Heatsink with the stock square of thermal compound on it - I've used it before in my budget machines without this problem before.
Any ideas? All fans work, heatsink is securely attached, etc.