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I have just bought an Intel PentiumD 830. In the BIOS i'm getting temperatures of around 62-63°C with a room temperature of around 25°C. Is this normal? I swapped the original Intel heatsink + fan for a Zalman 7700Cu 120mm one. Though temeperatures still stick around 62°C. I heard that Intel's latest CPUs heat more than they used to (and more than AMDs latest chips). I havn't got any programs running since Windows is not yet installed...should i be worried about such temperatures? Cheers, Edd

sounds good to me on a stock heatsink.. a little warm, nothing to worry about though

The Aixtase wrote:I have just bought an Intel PentiumD 830. In the BIOS i'm getting temperatures of around 62-63°C with a room temperature of around 25°C. Is this normal? I swapped the original Intel heatsink + fan for a Zalman 7700Cu 120mm one. Though temeperatures still stick around 62°C. I heard that Intel's latest CPUs heat more than they used to (and more than AMDs latest chips). I havn't got any programs running since Windows is not yet installed...should i be worried about such temperatures? Cheers, Edd

You heard right. Intels latest chips put out a huge amount of heat, especially when compared to athlon 64's, which generall hang around 30-40c. You know why the Pentium D's stop at 3.2ghz? Because any faster and they wont work. thats what you get when you just stack to prescotts together. plus the fact that they have to talk through the FSB provides a large bottleneck.