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I just finished putting together my new system into a mid tower case.

Athlon x2 3600 65nm with stock heatsink
2gb Gskill ddr2 800
biostar tforce 560+
Radeon x1950 Pro
Antec NeoHe 550
160gb Western Digital Sata
dvd burner
cdrw burner
Windows XP Pro Sp2


My temperature currently at idle is about 50c but when I run a program a game or do orthos it reaches 68c and sometimes 70c and shuts off. I downloaded the amd cpu driver off the website but it made the cpu run even hotter so I uninstalled it. Whats the usual operating temperature for this cpu? Does it sound like I have a bad one? I redid the heatsink and used artic silver 5.

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What cooler are you using? and does you case have any fans or airflow?

-ouch1

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ouch1 wrote :

What cooler are you using? and does you case have any fans or airflow?

-ouch1



He is using the stock heatsink as he mentioned in the first post.

My Athlon XP 3000+ runs 48C idle but 52C on load. Might the problem be the airflow as ouch1 said?

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sry posted the same twice :ange:
BTW, how to delete own posts (like this one)?


Message edited by mm_vr on 08-18-2007 at 10:33:00 AM
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Sorry.. But I think you may need either a better heatsink or better airflow in your case.

-ouch1

hmm...
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Hi, what temperature monitoring utilities do you guys use?

Thanks

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Do you have the AMD "Cool-n-Quiet" cr@p enabled in the BIOS?


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