My Pentium D Suddenly gets heated up

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I am having Pentium D model No 915* with 2.8 GHz and 2*2 L2 Cache
Motherboard : Intel 945 GNT
RAM : 1GB DDR2 667 from Transcend

Although it is running smooth, no doubt about it. But when I run Games like "Age of Empires 2" Sometimes I notice that the CPU suddenly gets overheated as a result the SMPS Fan suddenly starts creating a lot of noise. Although I am not sure whether its because of CPU overheat or some other reason.

Can someone suggest me a suitable solution? If I put a Chipset Fan will it solve the solution? Or do I need to change the entire heat sink? Right now I just have one additional fan which is fixed on the wall of cabinet which is helpful in exhausting hot air.

I don't know good softwares for measuring correct temprature. Do you know any good software for measuring the temprature and voltage of Allendale? Although in BIOS it always show the CPU temprature around 60 Degrees. and Zone 1 & Zone 2 Temprature to be arounf 45.
 
If it's not broken, don't fix it.

If it is not crashing, leave it alone! =p
 
High CPU temps will shorten the lifespan of your CPU... If such a thing's important to you, I'd suggest getting a decent heatsink/fan replacement as such as those suggested in the Overclocking & Cooling section sticky for just this issue.
 
Well how hot is it getting all my fans kick in and make a lot of noise when gaming and nothing of mine is overheating. If you are using stock cooling on everything. And By SMPS fan you mean the one on the powersupply if so I hope that kicks in when theres a load on the PSU.

Post your temps and then I will draw a conclusion.
 
DeChache said:
Well how hot is it getting all my fans kick in and make a lot of noise when gaming and nothing of mine is overheating. If you are using stock cooling on everything. And By SMPS fan you mean the one on the powersupply if so I hope that kicks in when theres a load on the PSU.

Post your temps and then I will draw a conclusion.
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We I don't have a windows software that can measure temprature that can measure the exact temprature. Can you please suggest one which will work for Pentium D? I will immediately post temprature.
 
nono

if your not breaking any thresholds, and your computer isnt suddenly turning off, your fine.

if you're below 60, your safe.
 
Well. Its never below 60 Degree.:) When I measure the temprature through BIOS, this is the reading

CPU Temp : 62 Degrees
Zone 1 Temp: 45 Degrees
Zone 2 Temp: 43 Degrees

This is the situatuation when, no window is loaded, that means load is minimum. When I load windows and play games God knows how much temprature will it cross. I don't have a software to measure temprature through windows. With older intel mobos there was a utility named Intel Active Monitor but it does'nt work with new Intel Mobos.

I posted a thread mentioning this high temprature Issue and i got several response. One of you gentlemen advised me to uograde BIOS cuz, sometimes the first BIOS shows wrong reading.

But Upgrading BIOS is something i find risky, cuz if while upgrading a slight problem occur I have send my Mobo to intel service centre. Is there any safe way to upgrade BIOS?

The reason I am so much concerned about this FAN sound and every thing is, mine is a new CPU and i want it to be fully bulletproof, I don't want its life to shortend by continously raise in temprature above 60 Degrees.

Plz advice, If a fixing chipset fan and replacing the Orignal PSU with Cooler Master PSU will solve the case i can go for it. But i need advice from you guys, afterall you are experts
 
Speedfan will chart temps

Linky http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

My 550 Prescott will show high 50s in the bios but idles at ~40 in windows remember looking at the bios is like having a load on your computer. With a Pentium D if you are under 90 centigrade you are fine my prescott loads at 65-70. Are you on stock cooling. Trust me Ive been threw this before those Pentium chips will shut themselfs down if they get to hot. Modern computers get hot my Video card (7800GT) heats itself up to 70-80 depending on the game. If you want to check max temps down load othros

Link http://sp2004.fre3.com/

make sure you get the one for dual core. Open speedfan and then fire up orthos for a few hours and see how hot she gets. Id say under 80 for a Pentium D and stock cooling(if thats what your using is fine) I think thermal limit is 90..

When they say 60 they mean for the Core 2s.

By the way what case are you using the 9 series should be cooler than my 5 series
 
Are you using the fan that came with it or did you buy a seperate one. And after a little looking you might want to keep it under 70 but those pentium chips can take some heat. I had one that ran for a couple hours at 120C before it died.
 
DeChache said:
Speedfan will chart temps

Linky http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

My 550 Prescott will show high 50s in the bios but idles at ~40 in windows remember looking at the bios is like having a load on your computer. With a Pentium D if you are under 90 centigrade you are fine my prescott loads at 65-70. Are you on stock cooling. Trust me Ive been threw this before those Pentium chips will shut themselfs down if they get to hot. Modern computers get hot my Video card (7800GT) heats itself up to 70-80 depending on the game. If you want to check max temps down load othros

Link http://sp2004.fre3.com/

make sure you get the one for dual core. Open speedfan and then fire up orthos for a few hours and see how hot she gets. Id say under 80 for a Pentium D and stock cooling(if thats what your using is fine) I think thermal limit is 90..

When they say 60 they mean for the Core 2s.

By the way what case are you using the 9 series should be cooler than my 5 series
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Thanks a ton DeChache
 
perhaps the HSF was installed wrong or one of the four plastic pins is not inserted all the way
 
maverick786us said:
Does it imply that it is the thrashold temprature?
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I dont remember what that means but its something like that. But anyway if you have some more thremal grease take of the heat sink and check the 4 plastic pins my first 775 I broke 2 our of four and the thremal pretection wouldnt alow it to boot.

So as stated before that chip wont let itself get any hotter than its supposed to it will shut its self down or throttle the speed so it runs cooler so what are those temps.
 
i believe its the highest allowed temp before anything damiging and perminant can happen to it i ran a LGA celly D @ 88c for a few weeks straight before it died and the thermal limit is only 67.7°C on it
 
yeah, the CPU's are built to last and take some abuse. That PD915 should be fine. My CPU temps rise while playing AOE2 and Starcraft too. With my thermal pad and stock heatsink, my P4 hit around 90C before i decided to stop torturing my CPU, and I could run starcraft on a P1. Idk, i'm confused as to why those programs do that. 62 should be fine. Throttle temperature is around 67-68C for presslers.
 
maverick786us said:
I am having Pentium D model No 915* with 2.8 GHz and 2*2 L2 Cache
Motherboard : Intel 945 GNT
RAM : 1GB DDR2 667 from Transcend

Although it is running smooth, no doubt about it. But when I run Games like "Age of Empires 2" Sometimes I notice that the CPU suddenly gets overheated as a result the SMPS Fan suddenly starts creating a lot of noise. Although I am not sure whether its because of CPU overheat or some other reason.

Can someone suggest me a suitable solution? If I put a Chipset Fan will it solve the solution? Or do I need to change the entire heat sink? Right now I just have one additional fan which is fixed on the wall of cabinet which is helpful in exhausting hot air.

I don't know good softwares for measuring correct temprature. Do you know any good software for measuring the temprature and voltage of Allendale? Although in BIOS it always show the CPU temprature around 60 Degrees. and Zone 1 & Zone 2 Temprature to be arounf 45.
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I remember when my 530J would do that. It doesn't help the fact that the stock heatsink is noisy as hell either. If you're that concerned with your temps then you should invest in a better heatsink.
 
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