Am I cooking my CPU?

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About a month ago I upgraded my system to an Athlon XP 3000. Starting
last week I started getting sudden system shutdowns while running my
video conversion stuff. I usually will batch a bunch and then go to
bed so my CPU is at 100% for several hours at a time. The max I've
seen the CPU temp is about 54-55 celsius while the CPU is at 100%. I
didn't think that was extreme. I've tried different apps too and had
my system go down with both. My machine was rock stable before this
and it seems like a hardware glitch to me. The CPU is still on
warranty so I can try another one, but if I'm cooking it then I wanna
know before I replace it. What do you think?

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On 08 Jul 2004 19:39:52 -0400, Scott Streeter <ss@ccc2.wpi.edu> wrote:

>
>About a month ago I upgraded my system to an Athlon XP 3000. Starting
>last week I started getting sudden system shutdowns while running my
>video conversion stuff. I usually will batch a bunch and then go to
>bed so my CPU is at 100% for several hours at a time. The max I've
>seen the CPU temp is about 54-55 celsius while the CPU is at 100%. I
>didn't think that was extreme. I've tried different apps too and had
>my system go down with both. My machine was rock stable before this
>and it seems like a hardware glitch to me. The CPU is still on
>warranty so I can try another one, but if I'm cooking it then I wanna
>know before I replace it. What do you think?

I don't think 54-55 Celsius is particularly high. Of course, I guess
it may depend on how you're measuring that temp. The internal thermal
diode reading is typically what most people quote, so if you're
reading off of the motherboard probe, the actual temp may be higher
than what you're seeing.

If you do decide you want to return the CPU, you'll need to do some
planning first. All of AMD's XP CPUs are retail boxed now, so it's
not like a few years ago where you could just trot down to the
computer shop and swap the chip. You have to go through AMD's RMA
process yourself. Round trip, that took about 7 weeks for me
(including courier time to and from AMD). That time may be shorter if
you're in the USA, as you don't have to deal with customs. Anyways,
my point is that unless you've got an old XP or Duron proc to pop in
the motherboard in the meantime, you'll be without a computer for
about 3-7 weeks (officially, quoted RMA time was 3 weeks). Real pain
if you don't have a backup plan.
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MCheu

 

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In article <7jeknmxe47.fsf@ccc2.wpi.edu>,
Scott Streeter <ss@ccc2.wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> About a month ago I upgraded my system to an Athlon XP 3000. Starting
> last week I started getting sudden system shutdowns while running my
> video conversion stuff. I usually will batch a bunch and then go to
> bed so my CPU is at 100% for several hours at a time. The max I've
> seen the CPU temp is about 54-55 celsius while the CPU is at 100%. I
> didn't think that was extreme. I've tried different apps too and had
> my system go down with both. My machine was rock stable before this
> and it seems like a hardware glitch to me. The CPU is still on
> warranty so I can try another one, but if I'm cooking it then I wanna
> know before I replace it. What do you think?

It doesn't sound like you're overheating the CPU (at least not the part with
the temperature sensor), but you may be overheating some other chip on your
motherboard (e.g. RAM, IDE controller). Probably some more ventilation is
in order.

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