P4 1.6A Heat Question

Hi,

I just got my hands on a P4 1.6A Northwood. Pretty cool - as in neatness factor, but I am concerned about the actual operating temperature. It's a retail unit with a REALLY hugh heatsink. I used Artic silver III on it BUT it still runs at 63C under load; idle about 55 degrees C (Temperature as reported by ASUS Probe). I checked on the Intel site and could not find anything to satisfy my question. So if anyone knows what temp this little guy is supposed to be running at please let me know. Maybe I shouldn't have ripped that little metal thingy off the heatsink??!!! (OOOPS!) I dunno. Need some help here.

Thanks a bunch.

Bluewire.

"As long as you are happy with your rig, it doesn't matter who made it. "

those are extremely high temperatures for that CPU. Full load should be 50C with a crappy Heat Sink and no case fans. And the Pentium 4s have the temperature probe built into the CPU so the asus probe SHOULD be right on the money. From my experience its only the hardware that makes asus probe have high readings (like manual probes on AMD cpus) pentium 4s don't have that problem.
What ever broke I suggest you fix/replace it.

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Hi Guys,

Thanks for the answers,

- somerandomguy - yeah there is Artic Silver III now. I haven't tried it on my main PIII dual system yet but its supposed to be an improvement over Artic Silver II which I have been using. Its a darker pastel silver now.

Fats, I have the retail heatsink and fan. It came with this little black square piece of foil. I ripped it off thinking that the Artic Silver III would do the trick. I guess not if my 1.6A is running at about 63C when its under heavy load. I didn't chuck it out yet, and I am going to put it back on. But eh , go figure. I am at a loss. This is my first P4

Bluewire.

"As long as you are happy with your rig, it doesn't matter who made it. "

what do you use to monitor the cpu temps...i cant use MBM5 because it doesnt work with my motherboard (asus P4S333...SIS645) and i e-mailed the maker/developer of MBM5 about my problem and he said that MBM5 "doesnt like" the SIS645 chip....so it wont work...
i tried using asus probe and its pretty much uselss....the CPU temp stays at 40C...no matter what i do with it...im guessing its not reading the CPU temps at all....
according to the BIOS...i havent seen my temps go past 37C...but thats after rebooting my sytem...which had time to cool off between rebooting...
anyways...do you know of any other monitoring programs?

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