Hi, I have an Intel D875PBZ or whatever the exact name of the motherboard is. I plugged in a P4 3.0 800, with the stock fan and heatsink. I would think this would keep the system plenty cool, but I installed the Intel Active Monitor, and when running FS2004, the active monitor will pop up and tell me the processor has exceeded maximum recommmended operating temperture. It gets up to about 70 degrees. Anybody else experience these problems? What is the recommended solution? I can't believe Intel would ship such an inadequate heatsink/fan with it's CPU.

My stock fan on the Intel 3.0 cools just fine here..Are your RPMs low ?

Have you used too much thermal paste? It should, ideally, be a delicately thin, almost transparent layer, spread evenly across the die.

Christian, This Intel Active Monitor, is it a program or hardware? The reason I ask is sometimes my program just locks up. I have an aluminum case with two intake, and four exhaust fans in addition to the two in the power supply, the stock Intel CPU (P4 2.8GHz), and video card fans (ATI 9800 Pro).I was wondering if things still might get a bit warm and the systems was going into a thermo protection mode (shut down)Terry

hmm...70 degrees seems way too hot...that is way past the good operating temperature.its strange that the stock fan that u got with ur processor doesnt cool the cpu adequately. Usually the stock fans cool just enough to keep the cpu at an ok temperature. unless ur overclocking or u got a problem with the fan maybe...dario