OT: P4 Temps

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  That seems on the high side.
  Are you talking chassis temperature or surface temperature at the heat 
sink?
  At any rate have a look at the Intel P4 Processor specification page 
for a better idea.
  <http://www.intel.com/support/processors/pentium4/index.htm>

    Jean-Claude
    84 8v (with fresh Prestone in the radiator)

Chris Bennett wrote:
> I recieved a 3.06 HT chip from a buddy of mine whom recieved the chip 
> with
> the story that it didn't work.  Well my desktop is like a 2.4 and it 
> was the
> proper pin config... MOBO and RAM could handle it and I would double my
> cache and add hyperthreading for what it's worth--mainly I accepted 
> the poor
> homeless thing for it's speed increase.
>
> I had to scrub this thing with a rubbing alcohol and a q-tip for about an
> hour to get all the thermal paste off of it.
>
> I have a good heatsink and all that, reapplied the expensive silver 
> paste so
> here's the question what temperature range should this run in?  At 
> idle I am
> sitting right about 50 degrees celcius.  Oops sorry got ahead of 
> myself.  It
> works fine.  There doesn't seem to be any issue with it.  I fired it 
> right
> up.  XP recognized the HT processor right away, and I haven't really 
> tried
> Vista yet as I don't have temp monitoring in that OS.  I suspect it runs
> warm.  I know higher frequencies, more PN junctions, flux capacitors, and
> reflex drives... yea yea yea warp speed Mr. Scott.
>
> So I get 50 degrees C. at idle, and when I do anything intensive (I have
> been running Prime95's torture test) it spikes to about 65 degrees C.  It
> holds steady there.  Now the HW temp monitor if you put it in default 
> mode
> alarms at about 77 degrees C.  I think I may have seen close to 70 but 
> that
> was running Prime 95, playing MP3's, downloading something in the
> background, moving files and playing Star Trek Legacy.  No alarms thus 
> far.
>
>
> I just want to make sure it is stable I guess is what I am saying.  No 
> blue
> screens but before I go into Vista where I am blind... I want to make 
> sure I
> can load the crap out of it and not have to worry.
>
> Worst case scenario I still have my old chip.  I was thankful that XP
> recognized it.  One of the OS's had to be recompiled or reloaded for dual
> processors, virtual or not.
>
> Anyways... Interested to hear what you think.
>
> Chris
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