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[Eagleboy]

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.

 

[SHAWN]

Are you sure the heatsink is installed properly? Not much you can do if everything is installed properly than to RMA it.

 

[Eagleboy]

Well, unfortunately my brother needed the computer at that moment - so I had to send it off with him right after building it. I won't be able to take a good look at it until March 11th, his spring break. I guess I should have also asked if you guys think it would be okay until then, operating at that high temp. I mean, it's below 60C - but it'll be at high temps for almost 3 weeks.

 

[SHAWN]

It should be fine, but 50C idle is way to high

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

It'll help burn it in for overclocking...

I'm just trying to think of a benefit. I think it should be safe. Keep it near a window or something.

Ryan

 

[Raphael Argus]

Have him keep the side panel off for extra ventilation, might get a bit of dust but you can get a nice drop in temps by doing that. Heck, I used to keep the side panel off my case and point a small desk fan at my PC, I had 15 degrees lower temps from that. Probably not the greatest idea because of dust and magnets in the fans, but I never had a problem. (knock on wood)

 

[raverx3m]

my new socket T 3.0mhz idles at 51 i thought it was normal for this type of cpu
my socket 478 2.8 northwood idled at around 38
both with intel cpu cooler and arctic silver compound

 

[JamesR]

thats a fairly acceptable temp.
especially since its taken from the bios.
get motherboard monitor or speed fan, and check temps in windows.