its not great, but its not horrible either. ideally, idle temps should be in the low-mid 40s or lower. as long as it stays below 65 degrees you shouldnt really see problems. but if i were you i would add a few more (or better) case fans to improve airflow

50 degrees idle? O.o
Wow.

If you want to meddle with BIOS, you can try lowering your CPU voltages, it'll reduce heat output considerably, but you have to test to make sure it'll stay stable at lower. I can give you a few other pointers but it does involve tinkering with BIOS

my sisters Athlon XP 1.91Ghz runs at ~52 degrees idle, and about 55 Load. so its not too bad

Hmm.. still.. 50 degrees is pretty darn high, mine ran at 24 Celsius when idle when it was still stock, runs at 26 idle now @ 3.99Ghz and tops out at 38-40 on load

You *can* leave it the way it is, but you *can* also decrease the temps if you want. I personally would, because the temps could easily spike to 70+ and damage your CPU, which it might already have, and create an air bubble between your CPU core and the IHS plate and severely hamper heat transfer

I think its 345.

It's 775 for sure. Celeron D and 3.06 ghz for sure. And after post it says 3.06. So it is 3ghz. And 64 bit for sure.

Just forgot the exact model number.

Here's the issue. I was interested to see numbers so I removed the Heatsink and Fan and put the cheap white grease from frys. I went to 60c degrees. I said no good. So I wiped and reapplied the artic silver grey stuff. I only went down 5 degrees.

Must be the case. I'll try with the cover off tomorrow.

But I got a free coolermaster mystique 632 after rebate at frys over thanks giving.

Big case however, much bigger than my desktop. One fan in the front and one in back huge fan. 1 antec spot cool. 1 stock amd cpu cooler.

XP Barton 333 2800+ 512k cache.

And even without my pci blower I idle at 40-45c. A lot better and even with the cheap white grease.

So it might be the case.

The barton is my moms and the celeron d is mine.

Thanks

Ok so I installed a Thermaltake V1. Bios still says 50degrees. Speedfan also says 50degrees.

Plus now I have an antec spot cool, 1 front fan, 1 back 60mm fan, 1 cpu and power supply fan. Also a double PCI blower.

Sp it shouldn't be 50 anymore.

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