AMD CPU temps

[ngc457]

Would temps in the upper 50's and lower 60's cause a system with an AMD Athlon 2000 auto reboot?

[Phynix]

Maybe, doubtfull though. There may be other components in your system that don't like that temperature. Athlon XP's are rated to 90C.

Just keep in mind that with every 10 degree increase in temp, you half the life of your processor. So compared to people that are running with 40C temps, they are getting 4 times more use out of their processor then you in the long run. Coolling it down some is a very good idea.

[Xeroid]

Post some more specs. Which HSF? Which mobo? Which case and how many case fans? You should get plenty of advice here on how to lower those temps. if you supply some more info.

Mike

EDIT: have a look HERE for some suggestions. Someone is fighting the same problem.

[daveleau]

It is possible. 60C is the widley regarded limit for stability. 90C is the high for the chip to survive, but anything above 60C and many systems (including my 3 previous Athlons) get flaky.

I'd suggest running motherboard monitor 5 for real-time temp checks. Use it to monitor CPU AND Case temps. Try to lower the case temp and the cpu temp. I would first make sure you have a razor thin layer of heatsink compound between the CPU and HS. I'd also check the rating of your current HS. How many case fans do you have and how is the air flow in your system? Is the power supply fan blowing out of the case?

Are you reaching these temps when the CPU is at 100% load? If you reach these temps at idle, it is seriously over heating. It should be around 10C+ cooler at idle than at 100%.

Best of luck
Dave

[obitis]

hmmmm try ice watter

[ngc457]

thanks Xeroid I know how to lower the temp. I have a friend who I built a computer for. It ran fine for a month them last Sunday it auto rebooted. It was hot that day. The fan is what comes with retail Athlon nothing spiecial. There is no case fan but power supply fan is blowing on CPU. Mon, tue, wed , etc. The days were cooler and the house was cooler so computer ran fine. Today is very hot day and in his room it is the hottest room in the house and hotter then ussual so it auto rebooted. He has speed fan but doesn't pay much attention to it. Little while ago he called and said computer auto rebooted 3 times today. I asked to load speedfan and check temp. It was at 57C and climbing. His system wasn't taking a load. He runs one app. at a time sometimes 2 and rare 3 and they are stuff like word, browser, email, quicken and crap. Nothing heavy. Those are high temps for what he is doing. He also keeps computer in a desk cabinet with the back side open the rest closed. He opened the door and temps droped to 55C but that is still high but stable. I have built 5 AMD xp computers and used the same fan, case and no case fan. Temps were great 40c to 45c but the case was not closed in. My system (which I just built 2 days ago) is simular to his with same fan and I get great temps.
I know how to cool it and I have asked him to remove computer from cabinet and I will get a case fan and maybe even a new CPU fan/heat sink. I was just wondering if 60C (it probably got higher but he don't know) would cause intermentant auto reboots.

[ngc457]

He just called agian. I told him to disable the auto reboot so whem problem happens he would get the blue screen. It gave the blue screen twice this hour. It gave a memory address which i wish he had wrote down and also this IRQL_not_less_or_= anyone seen that or know what it is? CPU temp was down to 53C

[RamonGTP]

Yes it is possible for those temps to cause the system to reboot... 90*C is the maximum before PERMANENT PHYSICAL damage occurs... However 60*C is about the threshold for maintaing stability.

-Ramon

[cwizard]

I have an XP1700 running under W2K. With the stock fan, it was averaging 51C under load. Although supposedly within specs, the system would crash to desktop with Everquest.

This despite the fact that the case has 3 fans and is in a room that has the ac running.

My solution was Thermaltake Volcano 7+ with the speed control fan with artic silver heat sink compound. I run the fan at 6K.

This solved the problem. Now it never runs hotter than 43C and there has been no instability.

This is my second Athlon and I've had to use heavy duty cooling on both to solve heat instability.
Cwizard

[jdbic]

I run the mbm and just being on this site and running 1 or 2 other nothing programs the temp on the cpu is 20 celcius. I have a 1g athlon in a micronpc. From what I just read above, this thing is cold. I hope it's a good thing.