cpu always at 100 celcious, why?

[dragon-gab]

alright, i can't beleive it but i figured out the prob. i did tightened the hsf, i even added another fan to it since i can jsut for the heck of it. and i connected the hsf directly to mobo instead of using the ast cables. now it's at 10-16 degrees!! pretty amazing.

 

[Zorg]

Just so you know 10C-16C is 50F-60F. So either you are in a walk in cooler or your temps are not accurate. But that's significantly less of a problem than hitting the THERMTRIP#, and shutting down the CPU.

Congratulations, you might not wind up killing your processor.

 

[dragon-gab]

what do u mean by walk in cooler and b4 it use to be at 40-50 celsius

 

[dragon-gab]

and btw, i have stock fan cooling, no speacial type, no water cooling, nothing, just fans and heatsinks

 

[dragon-gab]

oh nvm, i jsut got it, and not, those r full bios readings. remember, i got 2 fans on my hsf now

 

[jimmysmitty]

^Um....good luck?

Who wants some pie?

 

[dragon-gab]

wow whatever kind of finality that was, good enough for me

 

[chris312]

I ran WOW with my CPU at around 100 degrees Celsius for a long time on my old Pentium 4. One day I got tired of my PC performing worse than it should so I went into BIOS to check the temp and realized something was wrong. Up to that point I had a disgustingly bad habit of just reusing the old TIM from the previous installation. Thank goodness P4's have the emergency throttle feature! I cleaned it up, applied some new Arctic Silver, and things worked great from then on. Lesson learned, lol

 

[Guest]

I found this thread by typing Pentium 4 "100 degrees celsius" in to Google, and found chris's story which is virtually identical to mine. My P4 3ghz has also been idling at 98-100 degrees CELSIUS for ages now. In fact, ever since I built this system 3 years ago, it's always overheated because I never could apply the right amount of paste. From when I built it new, it was idling at about 85 degrees C and reaching over 100 under load until about a year ago when I reapplied the thermal grease (from the SAME sachet as I had originally used 2 years previously! Hardly fresh!). After that it run even hotter but I just couldn't be bothered to try and fix it again and just left it. By that time new CPUs were so cheap on eBay...

They are certainly good at taking the heat and abuse. But the performance has become annoyingly sluggish (never any crashes though). I'm just going to nip out now and get some more thermal paste, then overclock it for the first time (straight to 30% I think).