AMD XP 2400+ Temperature

[Selbio]

Hi all,

I have an AMD XP 2400 + retail with the AMD factory approved cooling fan installed. The temnperature is around 54 degree celcius when is in idle and 58 when I'm playing fs2002. Is this temperature normal?

I had a volcano 9(way too loud) on there and the temperature was around 50 when in idle and 54 when playing games

Also the case has a fan on the front pulling air in and another fan on the back  blowing air out. The power supply has two fan as well.

If a better cooling fan is need, can anyone reccomend a quiet one? I was think about buying a coolmaster fan but I'm not real sure.

[Rivers]

AMD

[Selbio]

Hi,
The highest I seen has been 62 degrees celcius. I'm not overclocking though.
A friend of mine has an AMD XP 1700 + and it runs at around 73 degree celcius when idling and I'm sure it runs a lot hotter when playing a game. It's been like that for a while now. He has a Coolermaster CPU fan.

I have a question though. How do you manage to keep your temperature from 37-47?

I bought a new case which has two fans on the back and has room for two on the front but so I put the two on the back and one on the front. However I still get around 50-59, sometimes 60 degrees celcius when playing fs2002.

[Rivers]

My processor is Intel so naturally it is cooler, my case has 2 fans and I

[Selbio]

Thanks for the info. The retails fan that came with the processor is just as good as the ones they have listed on there. I guess I'll keep that retail fan.

I was going to buy this fan

http://www.nexfan.com/evcucoacofrs1.html

But I'm glad I read your post first before I went ahead and blew some money

[congo]

I just bought an XP 2600 and it runs under 46* overclocked while gaming, I keep the sidecovers off, there are no case fans. It idles 32* normal clock.

My last XP1800+ was always 55-60* normal clocking.

I think all AMD's are not created equal.

[Selbio]

Hi,

Do you think that going from AMD 2400+ 768 DDR PC2100 memory to AMD 2600+ 1gb ddr 2700 would be a noticeable upgrade or would it just be a little better than what I currently have?

All the best,
Selby

[congo]

The 2600 processor is a little faster than the 2400 of course and the difference alone is not going to be too noticeable.

BUT..... the 2600 runs on a 333mhz front side bus speed
and so does PC2700 DDR.

So, you need a motherboard that supports a fsb speed of 333mhz to take advantage of the upgrade.

I just bought an Nforce2 motherboard, XP2600+, PC2700 ddr ram, and with a tiny tweaks, outperformed the sisoft sandra benchmarks for a xp3000 sytsem,
very impressed

[zebrafish]

Hi all,

I have an AMD XP 2400 + retail with the AMD factory approved cooling fan installed. The temnperature is around 54 degree celcius when is in idle and 58 when I'm playing fs2002. Is this temperature normal?

As others have said, as a general rule Athons run hot. Hence the absolute requirement for a heatsink and fan. The older Athlons with .18 micron technology (I think up to the AthlonXP2100+) were especially prone to this. Newer AthlonXPs with the thoroughbred platform (.13 micron) run cooler but still hot. My Athlon 1.2 consistently hits 60-63 C when running FS2K2.

You might want to invest in a new, quieter heatsink. I understand that the Vantec Aeroflow (check the model) is quiet and highly efficient.

[Lurch]

This is the fan I run on my XP2500+ and I average about 37 degrees Celcius

http://www.coolermaster.com.hk/product_detail.asp?lang=eng&at=boutique&category_id=1&product_id=5

[ATI_7500]

50 to 60 degrees celsius are totally okay. i run my duron 1200 at 57 degrees celsius and it works perfectly.

[Selbio]

Thanks for the replies.

I have realized that running on windows xp it was around 55 c idle and 58-60 while playing.

Now that I have windows 98 upgraded to ME it's around 48 C idle and 53 while playing. The pc runs very stable so I figured it'd be ok.

By the way the next thing I need to get my pc upto date is a better video card. Right now I have a gf4 ti 4200 64mb ram. What video card should I upgrade to?

[Lurch]

Well,if money isnt an object I'd get a GeForce FX5900.

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=fx_5900

[ATI_7500]

if money IS an object,get a radeon 9700pro,9800, 9800pro or a GF FX 5800.

[Selbio]

Before I buy a new card I'd like to know what difference I would see going from a g4ti 4200 64 mb ram to a ATI 9700PRO 128MB ram.