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thats the temp under no load. IDLE time 5 mins temp reading.

Its a rather huge intel heatsink, yes.

I was alarmed to say the least, my two AMD machines run about 115 to 120F. The reason I ask is that my machine is locking up randomly, and before I re-load the OS I thought I might check to see if there was a hardware issue involved.

I have a 3.0 GHZ P4 (X86 Family 15 Model 2) and I think my CPU Temp is a little to high. Currently under no load it runs about 150F. I am trying to figure out what steps and how drastic I am going to have to be in getting the temp down. I just wanted to ask what the safe operating temp is on...