cpu temperature woes

[+Erik.+]

I'm a bit fed up at the moment.

I've bought a brand new case that cost me neigh on $100, its a Chieftec Dragon series, tower.

I've got the Copper Silent Arctic 2 fan installed and an Asus board. My athlon CPU temperature on startup is 55 degrees! Once windows has been on doing nothing its around 57-58. Typing this now the CPU is ay 60 which is a 4 degree drop from just a second ago! The point is, the PC isn't doing very much yet the temp is ridiculous. Once i start doing something serious i can expect it to rise way over 70.

I've been through several boards, several cases and several "high grade" fans and the temperatures have been abosolutely consistent no matter what I do.

I opened the case and the case doesn't feel that warm to cause the CPU to be this hot. What the hell is going?

The fan is mounted properly and has thermal compound put on. TOday i removed the fan and cleaned it up completely , removing all traces of existing compound and wiping out all the dust between the heat sink prongs.

[+Erik.+]

i've taken pictures to help visualise but i need to find a place to host them.
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[This message has been edited by +Erik.+ (edited 02-04-2004).]

[Boom]

I doubt your CPU is 55* on startup, it should be around room temperature. They don't heat up that quickly. I think your just getting an innacurate reading of your temp. You should touch the heatsink with your hand while you check the temp, if your CPU temp is 70*C, the heatsink should be hot enough to be uncomfortable to touch. As long as your heatsink is installed properly and your fan is running the heatsink is working. There's nothing to a heatsink and one is not just going to not cool the CPU properly if it's properly installed. You could have a bad CPU, but I think it's more likely your temp. guage is off.

[habibbijan]

Boom has good advice. If the heatsink is not burning hot to the touch, I wouldn't worry about it. I have had motherboards that were about 15 degrees off before.

Try flashing the mobo bios to the latest version. That might fix any problems with temperature reporting.

[+Erik.+]

well here's the thing.

motherboard monitor is reading the temp as 45 and a stable 50 once the pc is on and the asus probe and bios are reading it as 10 degrees higher.