Athlon XP Heat?

[chsh1ca]

Here's the situation. My brother has an AGKGA Athlon XP 1800+ that he got from a friend. His bios hardware monitor (ASUS A7V333 motherboard) said it was running at about 74C, which seemed wrong to me as I am running my XP2000+ at ~54C under load and it's overclocked to 2600+ speeds w/333FSB and overvolted to 1.8V. So he finally got around to mentioning it to me today, and when I took a look at it, I found a couple of problems. First was there was an exhaust fan but the intake fan wasn't working (wrong fan pinouts for his motherboard). Next was the sloppily applied thermal paste that was put on the processor, I removed some of the excess and cleaned off the die, as well as cleaned up the heat sink. Now, there is no thermal pad on the heat sink (it had melted away before the thermal paste was put on I guess), and I had thought I had a heat sink with a thermal pad appropriate to that, but unfortunately I don't.

I think they thought you had to cover all the L2 bridges and the small spacers on the chip as well, to give an idea of how much there was. So tomorrow when I go pick up some thermal paste and properly apply it, what sort of temps should I expect to see? Without any kind of thermal pad/paste it hits about 84C at default speeds, so it's running underclocked to 1150 (100FSB) until I pick up the paste, which yields 70-72C temps for now. Just wondering why this processor was running so hot before, even with improperly applied thermal paste, and what I should expect temperature-wise.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

its a palomino core,they tend to be extremely hot,so those temps are normal considering the situatiin. once you apply thermalpaste and clean off the old phase change and paste, you'll probably run the same temps as before. even though the thermalpaste wasn't put on properly the pressure from the heatsink will push the excess out. don't expect much yields with the same heatsink.

 

[chsh1ca]

Thanks for the confirmation. At any rate, we did manage to get case temps down by 5 degrees by connecting a front intake fan that will actually work.

 

[chsh1ca]

Okay, so I applied some thermal paste properly and at its default clock it's now running 57C idle, 63C load, which is a lot more in line with what I was expecting.

 

[Mik3y]

really? wow, my 1800+ palamino runs at 37C idle wtih a super loud thermaltake tornado fan.

 

[babyelf]

mine is running at 38 idle with stock HS
my casing is antec 1000amg with 5 fans
3 intake 2 front one side
2 exhaust back and a vantec pci fan card blowing up before the air is sucked out

before this using some crappy case and temp was 50-53 idle..

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

every CPU will run completely different temps depending on the application. his temps are just peachy now.

 

[chsh1ca]

Babyelf, the "before this" is my brother's situation. Crappy case, crappy intake/exhaust fans, stock HS/F, etc.. Not to mention during the day his ambient room temperature hits ~28-34C (No AC).