CPU temps at 57c

Hey Guys

I downloaded HWmonitor and it shows my Phenom X4 cpu temps are all at 56c-57c, does this seem a bit high?

That's very high. My Phenom X4 runs at 32 C .Have you set the cool and quiet feature in the bios? Apart from ventilation, that could be your problem. That is if you motherboard features cool and quiet.

Don't have Qfan running with cool and quiet, and don't load cool and quiet drivers in Vista as Vista has its own cool and quiet drivers.
I don't know what heat sink your using but I found the cpu ran hot with 3rd party heat sinks so I used the factory cpu heatsink that worked a bundle.

You may also want to play around with your power settings: Minimal power management or Power saver may knock your processor temp down a bit.

Actually make that 57c while at idle

I am going to get me the Phenom II soon, so i can use that heatsink/fan. Right now I'm using the cool&quiet that came with the ASUS mobo. I'm looking at the temp now and it is dropping to 46c so far. I disabled the "power management" for windows XP, and using the Cool&Quiet, so it seems to be helping

Room temperature is playing an important role in cpu temperature. 57C idle is not that bad people that claim that have 32C maybe live in a room temp 18C and others live in room temp 35C.

i had a similar post recently. although i did not get definitive answers, your core temps are high, esp at idle, but you cpu temp is probably only at either 46 or 32 from your speedfan reading. if you open up hwmonitor again, besides the core temps, there are also a few temps above it with weird names. one of them should be your cpu temp (compare it to cpu temp in bios to determine which one). just like speedfan, the other one if probably mobo chipset. the cpu temp has a max temp of 62 for new phenoms, but core temps can go higher.

my cpu temp is around 42-44c playing games, but core temps can hit 58-60c. at idle, my cpu temp is about 37c and core temps 44c.

since your numbers are a little high, try to reapply thermal paste (artic silver5) and reseat your heatsink.

I forgot to ask, maybe someone out there is using the Phenom X4 and getting warmer temps? Could be the chip is set to run warm?

which one do you have? is it a 125watt or 95watt? i have the pII x4 940 oc'd to 3.5. vcore set to auto and varies from 1.35 (default) to 1.45. the chip does get hot quickly. i imagine the 95watt'ers are cooler.

Looks like I found the problem. The ZeroTherm heatsink was not working. Since the fan was attached to the side of heatsink instead of the top, it didn't work well. I replaced with with a heatsink/fan that came with a phenom cpu my brother had. The temp is holding at 40c XD

I noticed a big problem yesterday, I turned on my computer for the first time, went directly into BIOS to check the heat, it was 57c!!! I immediately took off the heatsink and replaced it...whew. No way should it be that high 2 seconds after turning on computer. But all is good now, got it steady at 40c while idle and it hits about 50c while playing COD4, but drops quickly after game.......unless I can find a better cooling system then fan....ponders

i can not believe what i am reading..... ur out of ur mind.....