Whats wrong with my CPU!

[jimmy43]

Ok guys, I dont know whats going on here, I have an athlon xp 2600, with a stock heatsink and fan, Asus a7v8x-x, 2 case fans one blowing right at the cpu and the other out. I get about 50-60 C at idle, and up to 73C when its running alot of stuff... I dont think this is normal at all! My case temps are quite low, at 30C usually and never over 35C. So what is going on here!!

 

[IEC]

1. Is your heatsink mounted properly using thermal pad or grease?
2. Is your motherboard's sensor properly calibrated?
3. Are your drivers up to date?

 

[Red and black]

OMGWTFCPUBBQ!!!

 

[Extraordinary Cow]

hahaha......same here, except 71ish. under systool calculating a looped 8 million pi digits for somewhat 16 horus it hit 76.....

try an external heat sensor device.