ideal temperature for your cpu?

[noswal]

I looked in my Bios and the temperature of the cpu is 45C - is that good/bad for an average p4 ?

 

[nocilah]

its not bad... I am not to clued up with pentiums but i know my P4 at work when i ran the tmpreture thing in windows mode was hitting 50-55C which i presume is okay...

My AMD at home hits 45 when it is working hard and idles at about 30C... but i have a decent cooling set up here where at work i use stock features.

 

[PearlJam]

For Pentium it is good. On my old P4 2.8 it reached 68 while running 3DMark. Idling was just around 50.

 

[MadAtter]

HA! my old presscot used to hit about 80 when under strain. my AMD idles at 30 and goes to about 48 under load with standard cooling.

 

[BTTB]

its not bad... I am not to clued up with pentiums but i know my P4 at work when i ran the tmpreture thing in windows mode was hitting 50-55C which i presume is okay...

My AMD at home hits 45 when it is working hard and idles at about 30C... but i have a decent cooling set up here where at work i use stock features.

Same here.
Actually even in the middle of summer my CPU idles cool between 30 and 33 and in winter between 27 and 30.
I am using a 3200+ Venice AMD 939 chip and it is overclocked to a 4100+.
Some of the later P4's run very hot.
Ever since the P4 Northwood chips, things started to get hotter on the Intel Chips, like the Prescotts.

 

[sdd]

I would say it is ok .... my P4 overclocked idles at around 40C... under strain it goes up to 47C....

 

[PearlJam]

I would say it is ok .... my P4 overclocked idles at around 40C... under strain it goes up to 47C....

What P4 is that? Quite impressive for a P4

 

[LabAnimal]

My P4 3gig i had to drop the voltage slightly as 60degrees is silly. so she idles around 37Degrees, and under strain around 45 - 50degrees. During summer, it tends to go up a little - quite understandable. Got 2 Case Fans going, one on the Side for the Hard Drives, and one at the back. Will be installing another 3 soon - guess i will have to start brushing the dust out more regularly: )

 

[Prometheus]

I looked in my Bios and the temperature of the cpu is 45C - is that good/bad for an average p4 ?

Think it's quite normal for a P4. My A64 3000+ is running at 39°C with a 12.5% overclock atm. If it hits 70°C you have a problem. This is normally the alarm temperature for a lot of programs.

 

[werner]

my p4 xe regularly gets above 85 deg under load idles at around 62.
running with an akasa evo120, o/c to 4ghz.

 

[thisgeek]

My AMD64 3200+ runs at around ~34C.

 

[Toxin]

My AMD64 3200+ runs at around ~34C.

Yip. That's about what my AMD64 3200+ runs at when under strain.

Easy water cooling FTW!! Well sorta easy.

 

[HillBilly]

my p4 3.0ghz used to run at about 60deg. i replaced the standard intel cpu fan with a thermaltake blue orb II; now normal temp is 45-50 deg.