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P4 Temp at 200 Degrees, why?

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Bman088

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SO i"ve been having a lot of trouble with my new cpu. It's a P4 550, and the BIOS and intel utilities say that the chip is running at 175F under idle. It's a stock intel heatsink, i put on the artic silver 2, and i've reseated it about 10 times. The heatsink doesn't even seem that warm when i touch the fins. What gives? Is my processor really this hot? or is there a bug somewhere in my system.
 
there is no possible way the chip is actually that hot, the system wouldve shut off before it hit that.
 
it would DEFFINTY shutdown...
if you have a MSI mobo, MSI are known to give wrong cpu temps so it might not be bad..
is your computer lcoking up when you play games?
 
wow, that seems very odd... some things that are interesting/you should check

you shouldnt have put as2 on it, the intel stock TIM is vastly superior to as2.
make sure its seated correctly. some people have had problems with the pins for the HSF retention bracket poping out
if the HSF isnt hot, its not making contact with the core. fix this ASAP.
 
It's not running at 200c, you would have burned your hand if you touched it, and your chip would be totally fried right now. I'm not too sure about p4's, but I think they have an internal temp. sensor on the chip. It could be malfunctioning. It could also be the motherboard.

Try flashing the bios. I had a similar problem, this worked for me. Bios reported 75c at idle.
 
Did you make sure to scrape off the TIM before applying the AS2? Also, there's no protective film of any sort on the heatsink right?

The fact that the heatsink isn't getting hot seems to indicate that your not getting proper contact between the CPU and the heatsink.
 
lithium726 said:
there is no possible way the chip is actually that hot, the system wouldve shut off before it hit that.
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thermtrip on P4 is 135C (275F).
175F would be into thermal throtteling, but you're well short of having the thermal protection shut the chip down.
 
I guess it isn't making contact with the core then. I'm running 194F on a full load right now. This is my first P4, and i read that some on the stock heatsinks have trouble keeping a good connection with the pins. I guess i'll get a diff cooler or figure this one out. The springs are popping in, but something is wrong.
 
USMC2Hard4U said:
I knew prescott was hot, but I didnt know you could cook food on it literly....
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reminds me of that video from a few years ago of people frying eggs on an old AMD T-bird ...
 
DiscoStu said:
reminds me of that video from a few years ago of people frying eggs on an old AMD T-bird ...
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yeah... and those only put off 54w of heat...

the only bad thing about T-birds was hte fact that the cooling avaliable for them sucked ass. a barton/tbred put out more heat than a thunderbird does. (i know barton is ~64w) along those lines, a newcastle is 89w, and a winchester is 68w or so... northwood max was ~91w i think, and pressy has been up to like 110w
 
Bman088 said:
It's an intel d915pbl mobo. i haven't tried a game yet.
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hey i got the same board it is saying that my CPU is at 200F too!
im not sure what is worng but now i have to use my other PC till i figure out how to cool it down.
 
update the bios. more than likely, it's the thermal sensor on the motherboard. I had a Chaintech mobo give me crazy readings. the computer never locked up or did anything funny. my money is on a faulty temp sensor.
 
I ordered the jungle12 heatsink off of newegg. cuz, my heatsink isn't even warm. i don't even think it's touching the core :( we'll see how the new one goes.
 
Unless you've disabled it in your BIOS, your Prescott will throttle and shutdown itself if it is getting too hot. For Prescotts, that limit is around 70^C. You might download a copy of ThrottleWatch and see if you're doing thermal throttling.
 
The system wouldn't boot if it was 80C idle. If the heatsink is not warm and the computer works fine, then you are getting a great connection and I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Kickus_assius said:
The system wouldn't boot if it was 80C idle. If the heatsink is not warm and the computer works fine, then you are getting a great connection and I wouldn't worry about it.
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if hte HS is not warm, he has a shitty connection. the HS is supposed to take heat away from the core, not stay cold on top of the processor.
 
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