Hi all,My birthday today, so I installed the upgrade my beautiful girlfriend Sarah bought for me! I've got a an Athlon 1.4Ghz, and am able to moonitor CPU temp with EasyTune supplied with the motherboard. I have a fan and heatsink approved to Athlon 1900 I think.The system is stable, but seems to be running hot. I get 63C at the desktop, rising to 64 occasionally 65 for an instant running FS2002.Is the system running too hot? Does anyone have a similar system to compare temps with? If it is too hot, what are my options? Thanks for any help.Gareth Evans

Its running a little hot but you should be OK. Use matherboard utilites to check if the CPU fan is doing at least 5300rpm.If it is, then It could be airflow problem in your case.Try removing the case cover and see how and how much will temperature change.

OK, Thanks Georgi. MY fan doesn't really get over 4200 RPM I think.I have a cooler to fit in the drive bay on the way, so I'll see how that helps. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't damaging the CPU.Thanks again,Gareth Evans

It defenately not damaging it, but it may be shorting its life. However it wont matter much, after 2,3 years that CPU will cost $20 :(

Yeah I know! But it is an enormous speed increase over my tired old PIII-800 :-eekFS2002 looks like a totally new sim with all the options I can now enable.Thanks again for your help,Gareth Evans

Yap, I know that feeling. I upgraded from PIII800 to Amd [email protected] and saw huge difference.(now Im running 1700+@1964+ and I can put all sliders max. :-hah Costed only $130 with motherboard(3 months ago))