temperature:Socket 478 Pentium 4 2,7 ghz cpu

the19thbear · Post by **the19thbear** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:27 am

I'm running a Socket 478 Pentium 4 2,7 ghz cpu.
My cpu temp. is about 53degress celcius when running a full audio project.
Is that normal for this cpu?? it seems very high!

thanks alot

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:00 am

mine always recovered well from close to 80...

in a badly ventilated case I've had 50 degrees even idle and the thing still lives

cheers, Tom

pollux · Post by **pollux** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:09 am

Pentium 4s are well known for heating a lot (and consuming a lot too

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the19thbear · Post by **the19thbear** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:37 am

thanks stardust! I dont know all the numbers of the cpu, so i cant find the excact model, but clicking around shows me that all the cpu's have a temp. of about 68-71 degrees celcius... so i'm safe!
thanks alot guys!( or girls)

the19thbear · Post by **the19thbear** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:14 am

zangsta · Post by **zangsta** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:20 am

There was a test I saw somewhere , sometime.
They had one computer with an P3
and another with an Athlon.

No cooling was used.

The Athlon died at around 60 degrees Celsius,
the P3 started to lag and behave strange at around
120 and they stopped the test at around 200 !!

The exact temperatures may be off a bit, my memory
is not 100% there...

The P3 did survive the test !

So it´s no wonder that the P3 is still used in many servers,
and btv. the core 2 duo´s are not an extension of the P4,
but stem from the P3-architecture.

In general, Intel-cpu´s tolerate overheating better than AMD´s

Jörgen

zangsta · Post by **zangsta** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:17 am

I looked around and found this updated testresult,
wich suggests to me that with the E2160,
it would be relatively easy to build a system with mostly
passive cooling that could be very quiet.

"The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (125-W model) did not complete any of our benchmark runs once the CPU fan was disconnected. It clearly dissipated so much heat that either the motherboard or the CPU initiated a system shutdown after only a few minutes.
AMD's Athlon X2 BE-2350 has the greatest potential to withstand a failed CPU fan, as it is rated at a maximum power requirement of just 45 W. This, however, didn't really help much, as the test system using the Athlon X2 BE-2350 only completed two out of ten benchmark runs. Again, the system shut off after a few minutes once the CPU fan was disconnected. At least it took somewhat longer for the system to switch off...
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6850 completed two out of ten benchmarks with a non-working CPU fan. This is clearly a better result than the Athlon 64 X2 6000+.
Finally, the Pentium Dual Core E2160, which is a low-cost processor rated at a TDP of 65 W, managed to complete all ten benchmarks with the CPU fan disconnected! Compared to the 45 W of AMD's Athlon X2 BE-2350, this processor cannot possibly go as high as 65 W, as it would have shut down at some point"

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:49 pm

zangsta wrote:There was a test I saw somewhere , sometime.
They had one computer with an P3
and another with an Athlon.

No cooling was used.

The Athlon died at around 60 degrees Celsius,
the P3 started to lag and behave strange at around
120 and they stopped the test at around 200 !!

well, I've unintentionally repeated such a test a couple of days ago...

just finished an install (for a friend) when the computer refused to boot and complained about errors on the harddisk...

opened the box and it was hot like an oven inside

the cooler on an Athlon 900 had failed, but probably for quite some time - the thing is still alive and kicking.
Actually I was wondering from the beginning why it was so quiet...

cheers, Tom