Confused on CPU Temperature

Computer Forum General Hardware
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Hello, first post…

I upgraded and old pc from an athlon xp1600+ to a xp2400+
I know its old school for many of you guys..

My 1600 used to run at ~40c. This 2400 runs at ~55c.
I put a new copper base heatsink in with the chip.

I put my old chip with the new heatsink and it ran down ~36C.

The 2400 (AxDA2400KV3C) is rated at 68.3W
The 1600 (AXP1600DMT3c) is rated 62.8W
from the info here
List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I wasnt expecting such a heat rise from the swap..I figured the bigger heatsink would keep me around the same temps.

The heatsink is a thermaltake P/N: A4004 which says is good to xp3400+.

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did you use any thermal paste or to much of it? I would try re-installing the heatsink could possibly be loose.

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Yes, I used thermal paste. Ive switched the 2 cpus back and forth a few times and the 2400 runs very hot. I bought the 2400 on ebay so that may be my problem.

the temp on it is very high even when I first boot it up.

Maybe this cpu was abused or overclocked ?

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I remember from a while back a guy had a similar problem with a Athlon xp 2400 cpu running at 70C idle and he phoned up AMD they told him it’s perfectly normal. So I wouldn’t worry about it.