Athlon 64 temperature?

[zeapoorte]

Hi and thanks for answering my quastion
what is Athlon64 socket939 3500+ normal temperature under load and idle?
mine works 45C idle and 55 under heavy load isn't it abnormal?(With stock fan,ambient temperature 25C)

A8N32-Sli
2*512MB Kingstone
Giga X800XL 256 MB
Power 480Watt
HDD Hitachi 160GB
Please welcome any comment or suggestion

 

[ikjadoon]

That is actually pretty high. With the stock cooling and all? I'd reseat the cooler. What TIM are you using?

~Ibrahim~

 

[BobA]

My 3500+ idles at room temp, which right now is 18C. When pushed it will hit about 12C above room temp, regardless of what that room temp is.

This is a completely stock set up in an Antec 1050B mid-tower with only one rear case fan on low.

To be specific, I'm using the stock heatsink and fan and the supplied thermal pad, on a Chaintech VFN4 motherboard. The CPU fan is set to maximum at all times, no 'cool and quiet' here, because the CPU fan makes no noise even on maximum.

-Bob

 

[m25]

Hi and thanks for answering my quastion
what is Athlon64 socket939 3500+ normal temperature under load and idle?
mine works 45C idle and 55 under heavy load isn't it abnormal?(With stock fan,ambient temperature 25C)

A8N32-Sli
2*512MB Kingstone
Giga X800XL 256 MB
Power 480Watt
HDD Hitachi 160GB
Please welcome any comment or suggestion

Pretty high man; most probably the HSF installation is to redo completely.Clean everything from the existing paste, go get AS5, apply it as thin and uniform as possible (very thin but not as transparent as to read the writings on the heatspreader, no ripples on the surface), place the heatsink on it and swing gently left&right few times before clipping it.

 

[stallyn]

Indeedy is high, you could also try using a copper based heatsink to "pull" the heat away from the cpu, also i may suggest adding case fans, one intake and 2 exaust.

 

[m25]

It's just a 3500+, the stock HSF is perfect for that; he should just reset it right. Copper is to be used only in 2.6G+ overclocks or dual cores.

 

[stallyn]

I been using copper for ages, if the price is right it be worth it, since the stock HS are usually garbage in my opinion, i have one in my 2nd comp and it runs high, too cheap to buy a 2nd copper hs for it, the as5 does help a bit

 

[m25]

Have the retail cooler on my 2.0 GHz A64 and I'm now idling @ 26°C, top temp 38°C, I only envy a good Cu or Cu/Al cooler for being a lot quiet. it's the only reason I'm thinking of buying one; Let the PC on, an animation rendering and go to sleep without nightmares.

 

[choirbass]

for a single core... those temperatures seem kinda high... if your heatsink is seated correctly, i would check for ways you could improve case ventilation... ...clearing cables and such out of the way as much as possible, so as not to disrupt airflow.... multiple fans pulling air INto your case for example, at least 1 fan near the bottom of your case pulling air in (as the colder air from outside your case is brought in, cooling things on its way up from the bottom, being heated up, and eventually exhausting out again towards the top), and 1 fan blowing air onto your cpu heatsink mounted inside the back of the case... you need at least one exhaust fan near the top as well to exhaust hot air (most psus already do that, but another fan below that couldnt hurt, or at the very top, exhausting air out the top of the case)

120mm fans are usually the way to go too, because low noise, and high air circulation

proper case ventilation is the most effective (and usually pretty affordable) way to cool things, followed by a 3rd party hsf... both can help a great deal though