cpu getting realy hot

[ONESHOTKILL]

my sister bought a pc a few days ago secound hand and for some reason the cpu gets abit hot and the warning alarm comes on.The cpu is a 2600xp and i think it has stock hsf on it aswell.soon as the pc boots, and i go into bios the tempreture starts at around 30 then around 5 mins its at around 55 degrees.The alarm is set at 70,soon as my sister does anything on the pc for around 1 hour alarm starts and has to switch it off.Could the cpu be faulted or could the heatsink and fan not be cooling the cpu enough.

 

[Tk7]

The heatsink/fan is definitely the first thing to check. It might just need cleaning and reseating.

I would remove the heatsink and fan, give both a good clean including remove the old thermal paste. Then apply some new paste and reseat it.

 

[PoliticallyCorrect]

the cpu isn't immediately getting hot. the cooler is probably full of dust and the heat is building up. try improving the extraction of heat with a rear exhaust fan as well as cleaning out the current hsf.

another possibility for heat build up would be if the hsf isn't tight enouph on the top of the cpu, add some thermal compound as a last resort.

 

[ONESHOTKILL]

the hs was clean and the fan was also clean,i took the heat sink off and applyed some thermal paste and removed the thermal pad thing that comes with stock heat sinks.It knocked it down a few degrees but after a couple of hours the alarm comes back on.I am thinking make the processer is at the wrong settings.CPUz says the processor is a 2600 barton,i am thinking maybe the cooler is not theright cooler for that chip and was from slower cpu?

 

[Tetras]

It doesn't sound like the best heatsink in the world but I think they were hot running chips. I only ever had one myself so hopefully others can confirm. I am guessing the system remains stable even at these high temperatures?

 

[ONESHOTKILL]

yea seems to be stable,i have the alarm set to 70 can it do damage to the cpu if its running that hot?

 

[Tetras]

Aye it can, I don't think Athlon XP had any thermal protection at all so it'll burn up instead of throttling.

That said they did run pretty darn hot, does it look like the stock cooler? I've tried to find some heatsink and Athlon XP reviews to refresh my memory but I can't find any that give temps. The maximum spec for Athlon XP barton core appears to be 85C so it shouldn't hurt to run to 70 at least.

 

[vapor matt]

you could try fitting a more powerfull fan, see if that helps the temps!

 

[decto]

The Athlon XP ran at around 60 watts so not far of a core2. Core speed was around 2133 Mhz with vcore @ 1.65v.

Only thing I remember with these CPU's is that you only need a tiny amount of thermal paste and that the CPU cooler has to be fitted correctly. Some of the orignial coolers only fit in one orientation and will rest on the edge of the socket when incorrectly fitted.

Also check the BIOS to ensure there is no fan managment 'silent' option enabled

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[ONESHOTKILL]

i was woundering if i could change a setting in the bios to make the cpu run at lower speeds,the motherboard is a abit va-10.The heatsink is a standerd one with the AMD halogram on the top it does not have a copper plate on the bottom either.The cpu alarm normaly goes off when my sister is playing ruine scape,not sure if that game uses a lot of cpu usage?

 

[hardc0re_tid]

most of the bartons got hot, mine anyway, had a 2800 which sat around 38-40 idle, and a 3200 which sat around 40-44 idle, both never went past mid 60's though

 

[Big.Wayne]

The cpu is a 2600xp and i think it has stock hsf on it aswell.soon as the pc boots, and i go into bios the tempreture starts at around 30 then around 5 mins its at around 55 degrees.The alarm is set at 70,soon as my sister does anything on the pc for around 1 hour alarm starts and has to switch it off

Just a thought but I remember that its possible to fit the socket A HSF *incorrectly* because there is a ledge on the CPU socket, if you don't make sure to attach the HSF correctly then it could be touching the ledge in the CPU socket and not making full contact with the CPU slug. . .

In the picture above imagine in the HSF was positioned a bit more to the right then it would be resting on the plastic step of the CPU socket and the temps would *rocket* due to poor contact with the base of the HSF.