that is a good Q, as they are set to default... lemme grab a shot of the BIOS settings...

edit: here are the cpu settings and hardware monitor ...

cpu voltage seems fine...

You may have applied a little too much paste. try with less and put it only in the center area of the IHS. Other then maybe a too slow moving cpu fan (even though the speed in the BIOS suggests this is not the case) or a misreading temp sensor I can't tell why your temps get so high.
Do you happen to have another 1400 laying around you could test? It's a long shot but maybe theres something wrong with the cpu or it's IHS??

will try with a way better thermal paste that I have ordered... IIRC this one most probably is some chinese noname stuff....

52C is fine. There is absolutely nothing to worry about and nothing to gain with a lower temp.

Paste "quality" doesn't affect temp much. Maybe a few degrees. It's just important that you have some sort of thermal compound applied so there's something besides air in the gaps between the CPU and heatsink.

BTW, in the BIOS the CPU doesn't sleep at all. In Windows your temps will be lower because the CPU should be receiving the HLT command when it is at all idle.

allright then! I was under the impression that temps should be lower that's why I worried...
thanks all!!!!

update:

I bit the bullet and got this 210gr copper heatsink and some Arctic Silver Ceramique stuff ...

the BIOS temperature is ~55-59 degrees now... I don't see it getting any better and will leave it that way 🤣

I'd recommend using a bigass Socket A cooler (they work well for Socket 370's as well), and a tube of Arctic Silver 5. That should help alleviate your cooling problems. 😁

I tried with the cooler I had on my 2600+ AthlonXP... too much noise and same results... who knows, maybe the mobo temp report is not to be trusted at all...

keropi wrote:

I tried with the cooler I had on my 2600+ AthlonXP... too much noise and same results... who knows, maybe the mobo temp report is not to be trusted at all...

I'm starting to believe this is the case. Either that, or your cpu is somehow malfunctioning...or theres something making the cpu run at full throttle all the time??

I don't believe the cpu is malfunctioning, the machine never crashed/acted strange even in the hot summer days... 😀
It is said before in the thread that in the BIOS screen the cpu gets used almost 100%...

I don't think that sensor is reliable...

What power rating does such a cpu have?

If you have another board, you could see what temps it are read there 😉

nah, I won't really do another transplant, in the end something will break 🤣
I have left it playing the Unreal flyby demo at 1280x1024 for ~1hr, nothing strange happened and the heatsink is warm but not 60 degrees... will leave it for one more hour but I assume it will be fine

here is the new home for my p3... too new for my taste BUT the whole system is SUPER cool now... no more temperature problems and all the fans are ~15-17dB ... so I am gonna keep it there , at least I decorated it with a retro 3DFX sticker 🤣

Cases with the 12cm honeycomb fan openings are the best imo 😉

@keropi

Groovy 😀

I see you have the ghay daughter board for the sb live...have you anything hooked up to it?

@Tetrium : yeah, even the v5500 is cool 😁

@Amigaz: not really, I have it there as an option to connect my CM32-L ... but this p3 now evolved to a windowsME-only machine so I doubt I will ever connect it there...

keropi wrote:

@Tetrium : yeah, even the v5500 is cool 😁

@Amigaz: not really, I have it there as an option to connect my CM32-L ... but this p3 now evolved to a windowsME-only machine so I doubt I will ever connect it there...

I think that daughter board is made for some proprietary speaker connector creative had on some 5.1 spoeaker models back then...

on my card there are midi in/out, spdif in/out and that connector you say, digital ext or something like that...

Here goes my first post on my new account 😀

I just got my P-III-S 1.4GHz about a week ago, I use a rather open case design (Thermaltake V3 Black) with 4x 120mm fans, a socket 370 CoolerMaster HSF like 60mm and aluminum. I live in Ohio and keep my computer in the basement which is a bit cold. My normal temps that I see is around 37c load currently using Prime 95 and that has been my usual temp. This is reported by Gigabyte EasyTune 4. Speedfan 4.29 reports 31c so there is discrepancy. My Soyo SY-7VCA2 and a P3 1GHz coppermine never reported anything higher than 25c load using SpeedFan and usually idled around 17c!

My recommendation is open that case up and get some more 120mm's runnin!

System:
P3-S 1.4GHz (Tualatin)
Gigabyte GA-6VTXE Rev 1.0 (Via Apollo Pro 133T chipset with Tualatin support)
768MB PC133 SDRam
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
StarTech 7-port USB PCI card
Dlink 10/100 NIC PCI card
SoundBlaster AWE64 pnp ISA card
Western Digital 120GB SE (8MB cache) ATA-100
Pioneer 16x DVD-Rom
XClio GoodPower 500Watt PSU
Thermaltake V3 Black Case