Athlon 64- how hot?

[mrkbik]

I recently bought an Athlon 64 3200+. At first when I installed it and put the thermal sensors on, it ran at about 30 C idle, and 38 C under heavy load. Now it idles at around 38 C and gets up to about 50 C under heavy load. Is this normal? My computer has not been freezing or anything, but I was just wondering if these are normal temps. Thanks.

 

[GameGURU]

Yeah my 64 is on a stock fan and heatsink at about 49c while gaming (getting a thermaltake tommarow from newegg for some overclocking )

 

[amd]

My heatsync and fan are new also, it is a coolermaster something or other.

 

[GameGURU]

Well if it is running that hot then you should work on updating your bios.

 

[slvrstang]

I get 33 idle and 40-45 load with the stock heatsink/fan combo in a decent room.

When its warmer out i get 38 idle 50load, in an 80F room.

 

[GameGURU]

He has to update the bios for the real temperatures if his bios is not updated.

 

[slvrstang]

He has to update the bios for the real temperatures if his bios is not updated.

Why?

What mobo is he running, i didn't see anywhere he stated.

and 50C is not a bad load temp

65C would worry me

I have the k8v se deluxe and i didn't have to update my bios to get correct readings

 

[mrkbik]

I have a Gigabyte K8NNXP mobo. And how do you update the bios?

 

[GameGURU]

Why?

What mobo is he running, i didn't see anywhere he stated.

and 50C is not a bad load temp

65C would worry me

I have the k8v se deluxe and i didn't have to update my bios to get correct readings

You should update, sometimes it isnt correct readings when you have an older bios. I have the same board too.


Go to the Gigabyte site and find your board, then in drivers somewhere there should be Bios Update and it will walk you through it.

 

[slvrstang]

lol, an older bios, this board hasn't even been out very long

there isn't even a new version of the bios for my board