Worried! How hot is this for my 2200+

I recently bought a 2200+ and I used a Thermaltake Volcano 7+ and Arctic Silver III on it...I mostly use my PC on games like CS, UT2003 and WC3...There are times when my PC hangs after about 1 hour of playing CS...I suspected it was the CPU that I may have installed or had the fan settings wrong...what I did was after it crashed I immidiately restarted windows xp and checked the BIOS health window and it reported that my 2200+ was 61 degrees hot!!! that's hot right? 60 is like warning already right?

anyway I have my Volcano 7+ set to medium because high setting jsut made the noise of the fan interrupt with the sounds from the game...even wearing headphones you'd still hear the fan a bit...I haven't tested yet if CS will hang if I put the fan setting to high...what's makes me wonder is I spend also more than 1 hour on UT2003 but it never hangs...could it be CS files got corrupt somehow?

disregarding everything said above I just want to know if 60 degrees CPU temp is too high for just gaming? What temp should a 2200+ be at on idle and on gaming conditions.

hmmm. im thinking its not likely to be cpu temp as it tends to rise quickly and settle at some rough temp, within a matter of 5 to 10 minutes, not an hour.

just to make sure its not the cpu, download prime95 and run its torture test, while watching your CPU temps.

P.S. software monitoring of system temps can be decidedly unreliable, depend on what package you use. One of the better ones is Motherboard Monitor 5.200

if its not cpu temp it could be anything, corrupted files, conflicts, graphics card overheat, memory errors, u name it

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Im thinking though that the easiest thing to do is to reinstall CS, and install the latest patches. see if that helps.

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