I have a comp with a AMD duron 1400. At idle the cpu temp is at anywhere between 65 - 68 degrees celcius. The specs for this chip say operating temp is between 0-85 degrees celcius. Is 68 degrees hot for idle temp?? The comp is running slow, im not if its running slow because of heating or if it is slow due to crappy hard drive... I just put this thing together recently from old parts i obtained through helping upgrade someone's network. The heatsink has a fresh coating of thermal grease and the fan is clean and working if you are wondering.
I have a semi half decent PCI vid card in that comp so decided to try and run a game. CPU temp went all the way up to 71 ~73 degrees celcius... thats gotta be too hot. I know these AMDs are supposed run hotter than the intels of that generation (my p3 1.4ghz runs at like 30~ 33 degrees celcius) but alll the way into the 70s? It cooled down again after i turned off the game and went to 66 degrees. Oh yeah sorry... and for my american friends http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm Celcius to fahrenheit converter lol
Either your cooler is improperly mounted or it's simply not up to snuff. The Duron 1.4-1.8 used a pretty late socket A core, so it's a pretty cool running core, unlike earlier Thunderbird and Palimino core ones. The general rule of thumb is that if your core temp is hanging around 60 C (or higher), particluarly at idle, then buy a new cooler. A Thermaltake Volcano 7+ (the copper version) or Silent Boost K7 are probably some of the easier heatsinks to find that should be easy to find and relatively inexpensive (as in under $20 US). Yeah, we go by Farenheit, but when it comes to computer temps, most just go with Celcius. It's just one of those things that happens.
I bet its just that the heat sink sucks... This was one of those boards that has the CPU built on to mobo so my choices for cooling are limited. Instead of clips there is a brace that screws into the board to hold down the heatsink. I had a half decent heatsink on that thing but i guess it wasnt enuff.
