[jc8906]

My P-4 is running about 51 degrees Celsius. When I first installed it in my new Asus P5WD2 Premium mother board it was running about 159 degrees F. I had trouble with the motherboard and not it was replaced with a Asus P5WD-E Premium Board. The processor is still operating at about 151 degrees F. I spoke with Intel and they told me that the processor would shut down on thermal overload at about 181-to 212 degrees F. I really feel that the processor temperature is too high. I was told by Asus to RMA the processor because it was defective and Intel has told me it is fine. The process is a P4 641 Cedarmill 3.2 GHZ with HT. The system is in a Antec Case and it has 3 fans. I really need to know what to do because it appears that Intel thinks it is fine but it does not seem right.

Thanks

[Curlyben]

Simple really, upgrade your cpu far to something with some serious through put.
Some ducting to the exhaust fans may also help.

[jc8906]

What are you saying the processor should not be sent back to the manufacturer. I should just buy a new one and throw this one away. I just bought this one it is not a month old. I just wanted to know if this processor should operate at this high temperature.

[NATOC]

Now I know that seems like unreasonable tempatures but you cpu is really able to go past that quit easilly and you won't be losing performance with the extra heat the only thing that you should worry about is if you try to overclock my 3.2 775 socket p4 HT runs about the same and with full load it would hit 80c easily at stock speed basically the cpu fan that ships with intell is worthless. For now running that hot is no big deal if you overclock though you are going to want an alternative cooling method 3 case fans don't help that much the only fan that matters as far as the cpu is concerned is the cpu fan I still have my stock fan but I have a box fan that blows directly into the computer and that lowered my temps literally 20c's and I can overclock it to 3.726 with stability now the box fan is a very cost effective way to get your PC cooled but if you have the money I would go water cooling its extremely effect and you'll never have a heating problem. If you move you PC often i.e. lan parties you could go the cheaper and less watery route of a new cpu fan and if you are a serious modder you could try oil cooling which is my current project (can you say awesome) I'm pretty sure you know how to cool your PC I just want you to know basically your cpu is fine its just the cooler itself (intel can't make fans fer ****)

[cajalat]

Your temperature shouldn't get that high. With the stock cheap intel fan your temp should be idle less than 45C. You need to make sure absolute certain that a) you have just enough arctic silver paste between the CPU and the fan and b) your fan is seated properly. I find that the majority of overheating problems is due to either too much/little paste and seating. As far as the paste goes you need to have enough paste so that when the fan assembly is fully pressed against the cpu that the paste spreads completely to the edge. You have too much when the paste oozes out and covers the area outside where the CPU/Fan touch. If you have too much paste then the paste will act as an insulator and become counter productive. To make sure that your CPU is seated properly make sure that the contacts of all 4 corners of the Fan assembly actually have clicked in place.

Give that a shot and if you do it right then your temp will be much less than 80C. I have several machines, one of them has a stock Intel Fan running on a 3.4Ghz socket 775. It idles at 41C and hits a high of 57C at 100% CPU load. It used to be slightly misalligned and had too much paste and the temp would idle around 60C and gets up to 80+C when there is a little load on the system. If you follow the suggestions I gave you and do it right then your temp will drop for sure. If it doesn't work then try it again, clean the surface and all the paste COMPLETELY from the CPU and start over.

Casey

[NATOC]

I've lost a 3200 to not have all four corners anchored but to tell you the truth I never put much thot into the paste just put what I thot was enuff on and left it ill prolbly redo that tomorrow thanks man for the tip

[cajalat]

ive lost a 3200 to not have all four corners anchored but to tell you the truth i never put much thot into the paste just put wat i thot was enuff on and left it ill prolbly redo that tommorrow thanks man for the tip

You're welcome. Good luck bringing that temp down.