Confused on CPU Temperature

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by dsa87gn, Jun 26, 2009.

  1. dsa87gn

    dsa87gn Geek Trainee

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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+.
     
  2. BoBBYI986

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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.
     
  3. dsa87gn

    dsa87gn Geek Trainee

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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 ?
     
  4. BoBBYI986

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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.
     

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