PIII temperature, what's normal???

[Devil]

I have a PIII 600 not overclocked (yet).
What's the normal cpu temperature if I only have the default fans installed
Currently it's between 48 to 52 C after a few hours of gaming.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

29- 30C idle and 35- 40C max is recommended temp. so yours is running quite hot. but, if you're not planning on overclocking, that temp is no problem at all. your CPU can handle that temp without taking any risk. but if you overclock, you'll have to lower that temp ASAP.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

ƒ~ƒ‹ƒN•²® (Apr 09, 2001 12:35 p.m.):
29- 30C idle and 35- 40C max is recommended temp. so yours is running quite hot.

I've been running mine under full load at 52 (or 130ish f) for about a month now.....I HIGHLY don't recommend this, but I was waiting on my new FOP 32. Came in today and I'll install it tonight.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

oops.. you replied while I was modifying my last post, lol. cheers..

[WizardCalledJosh]

I wouldn't worry about the temp at all. atleast not unless it gets to or above 70c. Ive seen a table with toerances (spelling I know is bad) from Intel and they say the P3's can run safely up to 80c some chips up to 100c. I know htis sounds realy high, thats what I thought when i first saw it. I looked but I couldn't find the place of the info on their web site. I've seen it there before so I know ts there just lost the link. These temps where at default speeds. I'm not saying that all chips should be fine at these temps or if they are overclocked to these temps, but if its running at 50c max or 60c max but idles around something alittlel lower I wouldn't worry about it unless you get some lock ups and you have already ruled out driver, OS, other hardware problems. If someone has the link i'm talking about please add it. thanks

[OpenFriday]

Im runnning at 51C and just ordered a decent HS yesterday to replace good ol' intel's stock hs. The temp is about as high as your gonna want to go. If you plan to oc at all a better cooler is necessary as overclocking may lead to some instability problems. But when i had this chip @54C with 100mhz oc'ed it ran fine. So if you plan to oc another better HS and perhaps a case fan or two would help. The temps are fine for the time being but i wouldnt keep them like that too long.

Josh-100C? I have my doubts they would run at that temp at all but lets say they do, whats the lifespan of the chip going to be?

[Shadow ÒÓ]

lower temps actually help preformance tho. A typical chip running at 50 c and the same chip cooled to 20 c. The 20 c mode will run a lot faster.

[warduck]

for stock..the temp is fine, but when you overclock you will want to keep it under 38c

[Supafly]

My P3 1GHZ runs at 29c-35c normally and 35c-38c under full load, while this temp is fine, it goes up every time i remove the heatsink off the chip, because the thermal tape is wearing off it has less and less evrytime i re-attach it. Also, one thing i noticed is that i COMPLETLEY remove the cpu fan from the heatsink for about an hour while running the Quake3 Demo001 loop at 1600X1200 and the temp didn't go up one bit. what's up with that?

[Shadow ÒÓ]

Supafly (Apr 10, 2001 12:11 a.m.):
My P3 1GHZ runs at 29c-35c normally and 35c-38c under full load, while this temp is fine, it goes up every time i remove the heatsink off the chip, because the thermal tape is wearing off it has less and less evrytime i re-attach it. Also, one thing i noticed is that i COMPLETLEY remove the cpu fan from the heatsink for about an hour while running the Quake3 Demo001 loop at 1600X1200 and the temp didn't go up one bit. what's up with that?

I sincerely hope your post is a joke, but if not a couple good points. First...you should not use the heat tape that comes with the hsf. It's total garbage. Radio Shack has a tube that will do SEVERAL computers for $1.99 and I'm sure no matter which country you're in, you have a similiar store near you.

Second, NEVER REMOVE YOUR HSF AND RUN YOUR SYSTEM. PERIOD! This is the part I believe you're joking about tho. If you're not and you saw no temp changes, I'd say you're an EXTREMELY lucky fellow. The thermal sensor is obviously wrong, or you've got the motherboard sensor reading thinking it's the processor sensor. You'd have accomplished an amazing thing if you ran quake demo's w/o a hsf.

[WizardCalledJosh]

I was just saying that 100c is the highest tolerance within the specs from Intel. That is an extreme case and tolerances are tolerances so that doesn't mean every chip will or is able to run at that speed. I'm just stating what Intel put on their site. BUt If it could run fine at 100c and it lasts for 1.5-2 years it would probably be replaced before then anyways. I found the link....http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/pentiumiii/pentiumiii.htm I was alittel off but 80-82c is still really high but they say it will be fine

[[OC]_SR20DE]

Yes both OpenFriday and WizardCalledJosh is correct.. Some chips may struggle at such temp but others can still retain that temp as Intel stated. I agree both ya. I also have seen some of the P3's run very hot... i mean over 80C on a default speed of it. I have pretty good experience in temperatures on P3's.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

Shadow ÒÓ (Apr 10, 2001 03:16 a.m.):
Supafly (Apr 10, 2001 12:11 a.m.):
My P3 1GHZ runs at 29c-35c normally and 35c-38c under full load, while this temp is fine, it goes up every time i remove the heatsink off the chip, because the thermal tape is wearing off it has less and less evrytime i re-attach it. Also, one thing i noticed is that i COMPLETLEY remove the cpu fan from the heatsink for about an hour while running the Quake3 Demo001 loop at 1600X1200 and the temp didn't go up one bit. what's up with that?

I sincerely hope your post is a joke, but if not a couple good points. First...you should not use the heat tape that comes with the hsf. It's total garbage. Radio Shack has a tube that will do SEVERAL computers for $1.99 and I'm sure no matter which country you're in, you have a similiar store near you.

Second, NEVER REMOVE YOUR HSF AND RUN YOUR SYSTEM. PERIOD! This is the part I believe you're joking about tho. If you're not and you saw no temp changes, I'd say you're an EXTREMELY lucky fellow. The thermal sensor is obviously wrong, or you've got the motherboard sensor reading thinking it's the processor sensor. You'd have accomplished an amazing thing if you ran quake demo's w/o a hsf.


Mr. Shadow, he said " removed the "cpu fan" from the "heatsink" and ran quakey3 demo", not removing the whole HSF. and therefore it should be do-a-ble. But the temp should go higher thou.... I agree with Shadow that his temp reading is either Hosed or he got confused with reading mommyboard's temp. Or, He got real lucky. I believe that Miracles can happen, is it possible??..

[Supafly]

well, when i first got the cpu, i really wasn't into cooling like i am today, i just need to go pick up a tube of arctic silver and apply it, what my main question was that the fheatsink does a very fine job of cooling the cpu, it a very larg e hs it's about 80cmX70cm, so you can imagine, what i did was turn on all my motherboard sensors CPU, MB, AUX, and my compunurse one, which was mountes to the bottom of the hs. i stopped and removed the fan from the heatsink and the temp didn't budge, i ran 3dmarks2000 for a couple of minutes and it went up 2c or 3c, also, it's VERY cold where i live, i live in lancaster, ca which is a desert and it gets as cold as 40f-50f normally.Also, one last question, is the artic silver worth buying? i think thermal grease would suit me in this situation

[[OC]_SR20DE]

no wonder... You got big ass heatsink. Those temp reading makes sense to me.

Artic Silver is good. Suppose to be the best.
Since you got a big ass heatsink, Artic Silver will be more beneficial to you. Your big ass HS will have more capacity to take heat from the help of Artic Silver. Whereas if the real small ass HS is used, using Artic Silver will not benefit you as much because of the volume of HS is the bottle-neck.