My p4 temps are hot..

epoxy5

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Well under load (playing css with bots) my P4 Northwood 478 3.2ghz reach 76 degrees celcius and this is a little hot I reckon.

I have stock cooling and if case is approx 19 degrees it will reach those high temps.

So I am thinking of getting a better cooler, and would like you to recommend me one?

I would love that it would fit my Asus p4p 800e deluxe mobo, it doesn't need to be dead silent, performance is more important. Still a loooud cooler is not the best :)

Price is not a problem and it should be air - any ideas?
 
Thanks!

That Zalman looks nice, I can see that it supports most cpu types I reckon that means I could still use it, if I upgrade to an AMD X2 something?

I can see that the Fatal1ty version is more expensive, would it be better to buy that?

Anyways thanks for the suggestion!
 
wow 76*c for a northwood is way too high. My 3.0 Northwood never goes over 50 and thats with a little Aopen cooler in a cube case. I'd try reseating your HSF and clearing the dust out the fins first.

Mul
 
Thats way too high even for stock cooling. Is the heatsink applied properly? Is there a load of dust build up?

What are you using to read the temps?

My 3GHz Northwood is inside a cramped Shuttle case with a toasty 6800GT and my absolute maximum load temps hit around 60oC.
 
Hehe Guru and Mul I was thinking the same and did remove the cooler just to see what was going on.

I can confirm that the heatsink was filled with dust and the thermal paste was so old that it was dry and cracked all over (nothing on the cpu tbh).

So I did a good cleaning and added some new paste, and voila it went from 76 degrees to 42, while playing CSS with a lot of bots :)

So I'll wait a little with a new cooler - but thanks for the input!
 
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