Hey guys! My pentium d 3.6ghz is running at 47c-50c under the bios and under PCwizard it says it is 30c-32c. Although under the bios it says the ambient is 30c-32c. Is this to hot for a pentium d? Is this why it freezes at random times. I know the bit-tech staff use a pentium d 3.46ghz extreme for testing there case, components, etc. Just would like some answer to these weird freezes and shutdowns. Thanks Ace P.S. it is being cooled by a cooler master mini 80 i personally dont think its enough
There are different temperature sensors in a CPU measuring different things, so all those readings are probably right. Download a copy of speedfan and see what that says. Some useful info in this thread http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=142090
My bios always reports my cpu temp as something stupid, so I use speedfan to read it from a different sensor. This is probably worth trying, but you may not have another sensor. 45-50C doesn't sound hot enough to cause random freezing and stuff though. You should be able to get a ballpack figure for the cpu just by touching the heatsink when its been on a while. you should be able to tell whether it really is 50C or whether its ~30C! when are you getting probs with it freezing? i guess the temps could really rocket when you start to push the cpu, which might cause the problem.
sorry it wasnt -32c it was 30c to 32c ill try speed fan thanks and i just ordered a new cpu cooler we will see how that works
Thermalright ultra-120 Should be pretty sweet if u look here: http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm its number one on there intel list.
cooler master mini 80 struggles to cool a overclocked AMD single core, so bolting it on top of a Pentium D @ 3.6ghz is just asking for trouble! were those temps of 47-50 during load? if thats idle then system life will be short! lol! i do like the fact that the mini 80 is compact and all it one solution but it dosen't perform that well, cheap HSF perform much better. such as the Arctic cooling Freezer 7 Pro. if you want water cooling but are uncertain in what to buy then look towards swiftech kits a single 120mm rad kit will cool that little Pentium D right down.
If you click configure, there should be a page that list all the sensors with checkboxes beside them. If you read across you should be able to see the name of the actual sensor that particular temp is being read from. I'm pretty sure that on mine, my cpu internal temp diode has a pretty obvious name so it's easy to spot that one. I'll try get a screenie later on to make this a bit clearer EDIT: Yep, on that screen, one my correct CPU temp is being read from "AMD K8" whereas my incorrect one is being read from "Abit AV8". I would hope that you can do something similar to tell which one is the one you want. It sounds like you need a beefier hsf anyway, but it would be nice if you could read the right temps too!
Doesn't really matter what temperature you are reading from. Those Pentium were fast, but hot. They'll run over 65 centigrade happily.
