2500 Barton - running too hot?

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My new pc system is based around an AMD Barton 2500, and it is running at
49 degrees at idle, and rises to around 52 degrees under heavy load.

The system is very stable and has suffered no crashes/bsod's/etc.

My system spec is as follows:

Antec midi tower case with 340w PSU.
Front (low), rear (high) and side case (80mm) fans, plus one fan to the
psu and the manufacturers fan and heatsink on the cpu.
I do not remove the case covers.
Asus A7N8X Deluxe m/b (onboard lan/usb v2/agp x8/SATA150).
AMD Athlon Barton 2500 cpu.
The system is overclocked from the default 11 x 166 = 1.81Ghz to 12 x 175
= 2.1Ghz.
512Mb crucial 2700 (333) DDR ram (memory speed is set at 175 & cas 2.5).
120Gb Maxtor Serial ATA150 h/d.
Radeon 9600 pro 128Mb agpx8 card (overclocked from default 400/340 to
500/360).
Hitachi 19" crt (cm721f) monitor.
Samsung x16 DVD/x52 CD player.
Pioneer x52 x24 x52 CDR/W.
Running Windows XP Home (sp1)

This system scores over 4000 in 3Dmark2003

*Peter*
 
Thanks again for all the input.

I've achieved a small improvement only from following most of this....
I took the heatsink off, and followed the cleaning instructions for this and
the CPU core on the Arctic Silver site. That included rubbing AS II into
the copper heatsink core, then "polishing" that.

Refitting it all carefully, and with the side of the PC on, I get the
following temperatures. All of these are just sitting in the BIOS, looking
at the reading there, before Windows starts....

51 deg C - As soon as power on (well takes 20 secs to reach the point I can
read this). NB. this from a cold system down for at least several hours.
30 secs - 52 to 53
1 min - 55 deg
90 secs - 56 to 57
2 mins - 57 to 58
3 mins - 58
4 mins - 59
5 mins - 59 to 60

In Windows later, MBM shows me at 65 on idle.

This still seems very hot compared to what most of you get. I tried the
new heatsink the vendors sent me. Initially tried that with the original
thermal pad on. I had to power off quickly, as my first view of the temp
at 20 secs said 78 deg C!

So at the moment have reverted to the original heatskink, fan, and AS II.
Temps still at the above levels. If I feel the heatskink immediately after
power-down, it does not feel hot. Right low down to the chip it feels just
a little warm. From the imprints of the core on the base of the heatsink,
as seen in the AS II it *appears* to be making consistent contact.

Clearly I can take this all back to the vendor to be checked out, and I'll
do that unless anyone has any other ideas. It could be that the
temperature isn't reading correctly. I'm not sure how best to tell if that
is the case or not.
 
Still running extremely hot. Have you checked the thermo resistor? it isn't
touching the cpu is it? This may be why you are getting such high
temps.....Just a thought....
 
If I feel the heatskink immediately after power-down, it does not feel
hot.
Right low down to the chip it feels just a little warm.
Click to expand...

o CPU is being reported as 65oC
o At power off, the fan is powered off, altho thermal output ceases

69oC is the hottest temperature a person can touch and not feel pain.
So it is clearly not 65oC - the temperature is being miss-reported.
 
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