CPU too hot, wondering why

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I have the p4 2.6C and a Zalman CNPS7000-AlCu using arctic silver 5, but I'm getting CPU temps of 53 now as the weather warms up a bit. Did I just not apply the thermal compound very well? CPU Database had people overclocking this chip with that cooler, but this is way too hot at even stock speeds. Should I wipe it off and try remounting? If so, what would probably be the safest and best way to remove the existing Arctic Silver?

Case temp is usually around 38 using a Lian Li PC-6070, which is fine with me. Before the weather got warm, the CPU was ~47 which was high, but not enough to really bother me. I don't like it in the 50s at idle for the obvious reason of it being excessively hot and not actually doing much. Thank you for any advice.
 
ABit IC7-Max3, and I'm using MBM5 for the temps. I bring this up because I was doing some studying away from the computer and it suddenly just rebooted. I had heating problems in an old computer a few years back and it was the same situation. I wasn't aware that the low 50s would actually be enough to cause a computer to reboot. Could it have just been a fluke crash?
 
Abit mobos are known to overestimate the temperatures to about 7-15 degrees celcius.

Its quite annoying that they dont fix it in a bios update. I have the IC7-g and get idle temps of 41 celcius which i estimate to be about 37 degress celcius.
 
Originally posted by Demonfire
Abit mobos are known to overestimate the temperatures to about 7-15 degrees celcius.

Its quite annoying that they dont fix it in a bios update. I have the IC7-g and get idle temps of 41 celcius which i estimate to be about 37 degress celcius.
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now how can you actually test it? the only thing you can use is another mobo, which could be off, or a temp probe, which isn't as efficient...

so do you just pic the lowest temp and say that is what you have?
 
Looking at that information it would seem that I'm not too far off the mark. Hmm... I wonder why it just decided to reboot itself then.

Thank you, by the way :D
 
I was comparing AS3 ,AS5 and cerimique. When I tried the AS5 my temps were higher by alot then the other 2. I removed the HS and found what looked like an air bubble:eek: So I schmeered the stuff alittle more carefully and presto temp dropped. All three varied about 3 to 5 degrees C
 
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