HP motherboard

[AtiFanboy22]

my friends motherboard from HP reads 173F system tempature and 90F cpu and if this was true the sillicon would turn into a resistor. i offered him some fans and im gonna install them soon:-p hes running a 2.4 gig p4 northwood.

 

[Menelmarar]

90F fine for the cpu temp. It actually might be a bit low for most cpu's and gpu's these days. especially considering the lack of airflow it probably gets inside some crappy prebuilt HP chassis.

the 173F case temp sounds like something is in error, a sensor or something, I don't see the system getting that warm

 

[chrisf6969]

or often temperature monitering software confuses the 2 sensors and labels them wrong.

so the CPU is 173F
and system is 90F

Which makes sense... crappy case ventillation = 90F
and makes the processor very HOT = 173F = 78C which is not unbelievable. But insanely hot. and maybe a little off?

If its a northwood, it really shouldnt be running that warm.

Maybe if its the first generation of Northwood. When 2.4 (400FSB) was about the max you could get.

Either way you need to open up that case.... blow all the dust out which is probably clogging EVERYTHING up. And put some new fans in there.

 

[AtiFanboy22]

yeah its a 2.4 gig 400mhz

 

[Dan_D]

Most OEM's and especially HP do not like using active cooling at all. The only thing that generally gets a fan is the power supply. Often they use some damn crazy duct work and have the hot air from the heatsink sucked out.

This looks great to HP on paper. But in reality leaves MUCH to be desired. Although they typically have pretty quiet PC's as a result of such thinking.

I would put a real CPU fan/heatsink on the processor first. Then see if I can get some case fans in there. Depending on whether or not the case has mounts for case fans will determine how ghetto you'll have to get when installing them.