that really depends on 1) cpu (as well as overclocked or not) 2) cpu cooler/heatsink 3) case my xp2100+ idles about 40-45 load is about 75-90 (in a crappy case... and i have the panels all open... stock cooling, not o/c) xp2500+ idles about 35 load about 60 (basic case...stock cooling, not o/c) athlon 3200+ idles about 18 load about 45 (antec case stock cooling o/c'd before i got the antec case, it was idling about 30, load about 55-60)
My Shuttle XPC (P4 - 3.2Ghz) is currently reading 42 degrees C on system/CPU/board , and that is under idle load. It is winter weather where I am though. Probably will be quite different in summer
How do you measure the temperature of the computer? I definitely should check its temperature because the computer is on pretty much all the time, downloading stuff.
u can check it via the bios (usually the thermal sensor on the motherboard is not that accurate) or stick a thermal sensor probe under the heatsink and close to the die of the cpu
My sff, or shuttle is so hot that my dvd drive is the heat sink no joke. smeelled burning plastic and read errors. removed drive and running external in usb case. dang, also upgraded pwr supply. this pc is used as browser, switched out cpu running with lower wattage celeron 2.8ghz
just dl some monitoring program many are freeware some software come with the motherboard (eg asus mobo, asus pc probe) i use speedfan, its nice and decent and its free =) in the end, i guess if your mobo doesn't have sensors, u can't do much ><
u can use something like speedfan to monitor temperatures (assuming there are sensors on your mobo etc). speedfan is freeware it seems the amd xp's just naturally run hotter... but i don't think it matters too much atleast if it does die, u'll have a reason to get a new computer =)
3.4 GHz prescott Always runs at least 65C, full load I get 75C. This is with a good silver compound thermal gel and a very good fan -_-;
Desktop 2.80 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 512 MB RAM nVidia something.... dunno it sucks Laptop 1.73 GHz Centrino Duo Processor 1 GB RAM Intel Graphics Accelerator 950 It can handle CS 1.6 and Ragnarok Online well enough... I don't play many computer games, just those two... my laptop>desktop at graphics... Don't know enough about computers to post more information.
my pentium d 840 runs 40-45 idle and 55-60 at full load the big copper zalman fan helps alot and so does the arctic silver
