Overheating

iranintoavan · Post by **iranintoavan** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:28 pm

I am wondering if my computer is over heating I have a P4 2.8 HT and an asus board. I have the stock heatsink and 2 80mm fans. As I am writing this IE is the only program open and the case temp is 92 F, Motherboard at 91 and CPU at 99. Under full load the cpu is over 100 (110). Is this hot? Is this too hot? Im gonna buy 2 more fans tomorrow but I am wondering is it to hot right now to overclock it a little?

matt719 · Post by **matt719** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:49 pm

Those temperatures are fine.... i don't think i'd overclock with any retail fan though. P4s are pretty sketchy w/ overclocking though... they go real high, but you have to be careful of NSDS (northwood sudden death syndrome)

MAC · Post by **MAC** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:14 pm

You're fine at those temps. My 2.4C is running 104 F and the case temp is 84 F. I'm running the stock heatsink and fan and have 3 80 mm case fans operating. As for overclocking with the retail heatsink and fan, I've head my CPU up to 3.0 GHz without problems. The only reason I have it back at 2.4 GHz is there is no point to having it run that fast. I have no programs that really need that much speed.

As for the Northwood Sudden Death Syndrome, you only have to worry about that if your voltage is over 1.7v. I have a P4 1.6 Northwood thats been running overclocked (2.24 GHz) for the past 16 months with nary a problem.

MAC

70Chevelless454 · Post by **70Chevelless454** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:27 pm

Thoes temps ant to bad for stock cooling. Get you're self a thermalright sp-94 with a pretty good cfm fan. i have the 2.4 northwood with the sp-94 and a 92mm vantec tornado fan, with the fan at max im at 93.2f at full load i'm at ab 99 or 100f, that everthing defult. Now ab the nsds it's not true with the newer nothwood core's i have had my 2.4's v core higher than 1.850 and had not 1 problem it ran for a few months with it that high. You want to overclock get some better cooling and maby mod you're case and get some better air flow and better cfm fans and you'll have no problem with having a high v core.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:46 pm

Like everyone ha said the temps are ok but lowering the case temp is a good idea. I would add those two case fans you talked about. After all the lower the Case temp the easier it is for the heat sink to do it's job.

DnkMax · Post by **DnkMax** » Fri May 07, 2004 5:08 pm

Those are just fine...
My old 1.8ghz comp was running at 125 f before i got my new heat sink.
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