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I have a celeron D 2.4 processor. I bought it just over 1 year ago now. When I first got it I had issues with it going to 70 degrees and even higher (closer to 80) when I played games such as HL2. I this was during the initial burn in period. So I grabbed some thermal paste. (arctic silver I think) and scrapped off the stuff that came with the stock heatsink and put that in its place. Then my temps would go to 60 - 65 under full load.
Now my problem is that here I am 1 year later. And under full load (playing HL2) I am going only to 41 degrees. Some people would think this is NOT a problem. But I suspect that my processor is burning out and not giving me the full potential of what it would have when it was new. I notice that my FPS in HL2 (again) are sitting pretty low to what I would expect them to be. And since my Video card is a ATi 9600 pro (not the best, but not bad IMHO) I would expect better than 30 fps in game.
Now my question is this:
Is there some setting or somewhere that I can check my stats against someone elses PC with similar hardware? Or can I adjust something somewhere? Is it possible my proc is just slowly dying? or have I discovered every PC builders dream setup where the temps actually DROP over time without sacrificing clock speed or performance? Any help is really apreciated on this guys.
Also I used CPU-Z. It says that I am running at 2399 mhz. Multiplier is X18, and bus is 133. Total bus is 532mhz. Voltage is 1.328.
Everything it shows me on there seems fine. I wondered if maybe it had Processor Throttling (which I thought these CPU's did) and it was maybe downclocking the cpu to keep the heat lower (for some unknown reason). Sop I grabbed an app that checks if throttling is enabled. It said it detected the presence of it. So I started logging data and played my game again for a half hour. I went back through the log and it NEVER once throttled the CPU!
One other thing. When I use apps such as DVDshrink it used to take me 30 minutes to do everything. From start of the disk, to final buring. (15 - 20 mins for shrinking and 10 minutes for burning).
Now it takes me closer to 45 minutes or even 1 hour and more (depending on the movie). ANd the same thing too, the temps only go to 41. But its a SOLID 41. It doesnt variate above or below that. Its just a solid straight line. It did that before when it went to 51, as well as when it went to 61, 71, and 79 (80 was the point I told the mobo to shut the PC off)
I am getting all the temp ratings off my mobo's monitoring app called ASUS PROBE.
Even if I overclock it in the bios the clock speed goes up. But the max temp it will allow me is 41 still!
Is there some sort of setting I could have in the Bios to tell it to go higher than 41 degrees? I have a P4SP-MX mobo. Bought that 1 year ago with the rest of the system. I built it all myself too so nothing is locked in the mobo settings.
Now my problem is that here I am 1 year later. And under full load (playing HL2) I am going only to 41 degrees. Some people would think this is NOT a problem. But I suspect that my processor is burning out and not giving me the full potential of what it would have when it was new. I notice that my FPS in HL2 (again) are sitting pretty low to what I would expect them to be. And since my Video card is a ATi 9600 pro (not the best, but not bad IMHO) I would expect better than 30 fps in game.
Now my question is this:
Is there some setting or somewhere that I can check my stats against someone elses PC with similar hardware? Or can I adjust something somewhere? Is it possible my proc is just slowly dying? or have I discovered every PC builders dream setup where the temps actually DROP over time without sacrificing clock speed or performance? Any help is really apreciated on this guys.
Also I used CPU-Z. It says that I am running at 2399 mhz. Multiplier is X18, and bus is 133. Total bus is 532mhz. Voltage is 1.328.
Everything it shows me on there seems fine. I wondered if maybe it had Processor Throttling (which I thought these CPU's did) and it was maybe downclocking the cpu to keep the heat lower (for some unknown reason). Sop I grabbed an app that checks if throttling is enabled. It said it detected the presence of it. So I started logging data and played my game again for a half hour. I went back through the log and it NEVER once throttled the CPU!
One other thing. When I use apps such as DVDshrink it used to take me 30 minutes to do everything. From start of the disk, to final buring. (15 - 20 mins for shrinking and 10 minutes for burning).
Now it takes me closer to 45 minutes or even 1 hour and more (depending on the movie). ANd the same thing too, the temps only go to 41. But its a SOLID 41. It doesnt variate above or below that. Its just a solid straight line. It did that before when it went to 51, as well as when it went to 61, 71, and 79 (80 was the point I told the mobo to shut the PC off)
I am getting all the temp ratings off my mobo's monitoring app called ASUS PROBE.
Even if I overclock it in the bios the clock speed goes up. But the max temp it will allow me is 41 still!
Is there some sort of setting I could have in the Bios to tell it to go higher than 41 degrees? I have a P4SP-MX mobo. Bought that 1 year ago with the rest of the system. I built it all myself too so nothing is locked in the mobo settings.
