Whats a good temp for my CPU?

I have an Athlon FX60. Whats a good temp for it? Right now it idles at 45C.

It actually stays the same. I use PC Probe. Been playing Oblivion with everything on high and it says it stays at 45C. Thats good under that much load (IMO).

That's pretty high. My 4200+ runs at 45 C at full load on both cores (running an instance of Folding @ Home on each core.) When it idles at 1GHz, the temp is about 25-27 C. This is at stock speeds with the stock HSF in a mid-tower ATX case with 1 80mm fan in the front and one 120mm fan in the rear, and 2 HDDs, 2 optical drives, and one low-power GPU in there. Your FX-60 should idle a degree or three higher than mine as it has a higher TDP, but it should be close.

You should check your airflow and also how much thermal compound did you put on if you put any on? If you used the stock heatsink, there is already the right amount of compound on the bottom of the sink. The stock HSF setup is plenty good and more than enough if you do not overclock. If you are OCing that chip, then you need to look at better cooling or quit the overclock before you turn that $1000+ CPU into a molten chunk of glass.

Perfectly normal because CPU temp depend of what's running in the case, what kind of case, case venting, ambient temperature,... all that we don't know, so we cannot answer.

but 45 is nothing serious. if you end up seeing 65 under load, then you could start to wory, but only if you have instability because you have no means to know if the sensor is accurate anyway...

So I would say forget about it and enjoy if there is no other problems..

I don't know about you, but when I get bored, I have better thing to do than messing with the HSF and thermal past.... especially with summer on its way here...

:? Like rub one off? 8O