Is my CPU overheating?

[ben4933]

i dug out my old computer a few days ago, plugged it all in and fired it up, to my surprise it all works brilliantly.
however i noticed the temps were pretty high compared to my other computer.

my CPU is:
x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel pentium 4 ~3186 Mhz Codename Prescott

the temps at idle are 45-47C, under some load, watching movies / browsing the CPU can hit 60C and finally under extreme load ( crysis 2, i know silly me but wanted to try it ) the cpu hit 70C

now to a general user that temperature is pretty hot!

this PC is using stock cooler and is pretty old, to my understanding roughly five years old.

are these temperatures alarmingly hot?

any help with be appreciated and thanks in advance!

 

[ben4933]

I used to have a 3.6 GHz Prescott that ran slightly hotter than that (I remember idling around 50C I believe )... I think mine was even outside the thermal specs that I found for the chip as I remember load temps in the mid-high 70s. However, I still have it up and running almost 7 years later on an old desktop...

All that to say - I think those chips were just extremely hot but it's not technically "overheating". If you're really worried about it, you could always slap an aftermarket heatsink on it.

Just curious - how badly did Crysis 2 perform on that CPU?

haha i was also curious!

with an ati radeon hd 4650 AGP version crysis 2 ran at roughly 15 fps, maxing at 21 frames per second, naturally this was in lowest.

and thank you very much for your reply!