I changed to AMD 3500 recently, but am concerned at the temp it is running at. It is not overclocked, but motherboard monitering software is reporting it as running at 119 degrees!I would have thought the thing would melt at that temp, so assumed the software was at fault. Any advice?Ray Keattch.

If it's degrees Celsius then yes, it should be smoking. But if it's degrees Fahrenheit it would be about right.

is that a good temp? right now, im running at 87f, and I honestly, want it down. Whens the time to get worried? Enjoy the bbq. Make shure you pull the brisket off your cpu after about 2 hours. :)

Around 35C idle is good and no more then 50C under a load. 87F is 30C, which is very good, it's going to be very hard and expensive to get it a couple of degrees lower.

Yes 30C is quite ridiculously low for such a CPU under load. Mine runs at 52C ish and to be honest I wouldn't care if it was 10C higher - max CPU temp is like 90C or so, and I've got a 38C buffer.Gary

>Around 35C idle is good and no more then 50C under a load.>87F is 30C, which is very good, it's going to be very hard and>expensive to get it a couple of degrees lower.My FX-55 runs at no cooler than 45 and around 55 under a heavy load. Nothing I can do about it except maybe water cooling which I've never been a fan of. Installed a great zalman fan and it has cooled it a few degrees but in general AMD chips just run hot. Thats the only thing Intel has on them

hmmm... i used to worry when i got near 85 or 90f. Guess im ok then. I just yesterday set the temp alarm to go off at 37C. Guess i'd be safe to turn it up some.

Yes definately bump that up a bit. My alarm is set at 55 but my normal load temp is 42 and I am overclocked to 2600mhz The General rule for 90nm AMD chips is don't let the temp go above 60c and try to keep it to a load of around <55.

Well i tryed to OC with the Gigabyte Easy Tune utility, but im just not shure on what settings to chance. Bus speed, voltage, etc etc... Id like to, but i dont know where to start..

with your hot temperatures you definately want a new fan before you start to OC it

thought you guys said it ran cool?

lol don't mind me, i read that 87 degrees celcius

If it is Centigrades then it is not good.Also there was a problem with BIOS showing CPU temperatures incorrectly. Finally the new BIOS that came I think around September they fixed the problem. I am using the A-Bit mobo but users of other brands had similar problems with erroneous temp readings.Michael J.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/pmdg_744F.jpghttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_beta_member.jpg

Here is a real good OC guide, just remember to take it slow and test at each step and you will be fine. Also remember that once you get the OC bug it is just like FS it is real hard to stop lol. Proceed at your own risk :)http://forum.overclockersonline.com/phpBB2...opic.php?t=7974