188 degrees F for an Intel Normal?

on my other PC i have an intel 2.0Ghz Northwood, stock cooling, and 1 80mm fan

is that too hot? or is it normal for intels to hit 188F idle?

That is 86.7 C, which is very hot even for a mobile chip (My 2.2 P4-M Northwood idles at 65 C and has a max temp of 100 C, shuts down at 93 C.) Desktop chips can't run nearly as hot as mobile chips, so I'd bet that the thermal diode is bunked (check to see if the heatsink is hot- 188F should burn you!) or the CPU is not making a good connection to the heatsink (remove the heatsink, apply thermal grease).

86.7 C is well above the tolerances for a 2.0 P4 Northwood. It should have shut off at about 70-75 C.

You might have a fried P4 in your future. Immediately take off the heatsink and check to see if there's any thermal grease left. If there's not, get some AS5 and a new cooler. My P4 Prescott was running between 55 and 60 degrees Celcius, and that's what killed it, so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens to you.

a t 188 f, shouldnt the proc throttle. does your computer perform well, or does it slow down and freeze. if it seems like it is running fine, then you can safley assume that the temp reading is off, but if it is acting goofy, you might have an issue.

Then go tell mommy and daddy about this if you don't want to take action. Seems like you just want to see if you are close to frying you PC and don't want help. Kind of lame :x

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Could a faulty heatsink really account for that much extra heat, though? Thermal grease and fan sure, but this is a P4 2.0ghz, heatsinks always used to be just a hunk-o-metal.

If you want to bring that thing over, we can have a P4 tea party at 2:30. Mine might get hotter because it's a 3.2Ghz, but it's at least got AS5.

Your CPU is fried, and even if you applied AS5 and got a new cooler, it would still probably die. Just run Prime95, and put that POS CPU out of its misery.

I didn't bother to read the whole thing but did anybody mention your board is not reporting the correct temperature?! check the temperature right after you boot and you will see.


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no thats not normal. I have a 3.2 ghz northwood P4 with the stock cooler and it idles around 90 degrees F and under load it only hits a little over 130 degrees F.

"or is it normal for intels to hit 188F idle?
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The only time I've seen temps that high was when, after a two year period, the heat sink compound under my XP2000+ solidified/dried up, inducing cpu core temps of about 190 degrees F....

A quick cleaning of the sink and top of cpu core, apply new thermal compound paste, and presto, back down to 130F at idle...

(Are you measuring that temp in the bios, or with a program within windows, or both?)

at cold boot its 159-169 degrees F, im gonna shut it off now and check, it was 156.9*F

FUD.

Prescott cannot be killed by 60°C!

Manual says everything under 67°C for Prescott cores is safe for long operating.

Anyway, I turned 2.8GHz S478 Prescott on without HSF just for fun -- it warmed up to 104°C and the system turned off. I remounted the HSF when it cooled down and it worked properly and as the matter of fact it still works just fine.

@Pengwin:
Your fan is most likely not spinning and the HSF is clogged by dust. Replace it, cleaning probably won't help because bearings are most likely damaged or maybe the fan is already dead/fried.
For 2.0GHz Northwood temperature below 55°C is considered normal.