Pentium CPU temperature increase beyond normal operating temperature

Asked By ynna saul 0 points N/A Posted on - 01/14/2012

I have a Pentium 4 3.00 GHz Prescott CPU which a rating of 450W on its power supply. This CPU has a problem wherein its temperature reading sometimes goes beyond the normal operating temperatures. This usually occurs when after starting the computer you load a game such as Call of Duty and the temperature rises from a previous reading of 55C to 76C. The heat sinks in the CPU are the default heat sinks that came with the machine.

Should I replace them or is this temperature increase due to a fault of the power supply? Please help, I need your advice.

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Answered By Chalk Talk 5 points N/A #90304

Pentium CPU temperature increase beyond normal operating temperature

The temperature increase is as a result of the applications that are executing on the computer. As you have already said that the temperature increase occurs when you load an application like a game, then it is clear that the game uses a lot of the system memory and the computers resources and therefore leading to the temperature to increase. What I will suggest that you do is to make sure that your fan is in good condition so that it will cool the system and prevent extreme overheating problems.

The temperature increase is not as a result of a fault in power supply but just the application that you are running on the computer.

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Answered By Genebraldo Regio 0 points N/A #90306

Pentium CPU temperature increase beyond normal operating temperature

Hello,

This is Common problem. 55-75 C is Too High value. 30-40C is best. So there are many solutions with this. First try to clean Dust in your system and Clean it, Check it again, Surely few degrees will reduce, If it's not enough, Try to Fix Heat sink and Apply Quality thermal paste. Fix with heat sink and cooling fan properly, also add some system fan. Now check it out.

Good luck.

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Answered By Sharath Reddy 590495 points N/A #316954

Pentium CPU temperature increase beyond normal operating temperature

Nothing is wrong with that and you don’t need to replace anything as long as the machine works fine. The rise of the temperature is normal because you are playing a game. The reason why the temperature rises is the CPU usage. The CPU usage is the approximate rate of the processor processing your data.

If CPU usage is high, it means the processor is processing a great amount of data. The higher the CPU usage, the higher the temperature will be but you don’t need to worry because the temperature is handled by the cooling fan. The temperature goes down once all data are processed or the CPU usage goes low.

The temperature always goes high every time you play a game or when watching a movie. But if you’re only doing some typing with Microsoft Office Word, the temperature remains at the normal level. In my computer, the normal temperature reading is around 54 degrees Celsius. But when I start mining bitcoins, the temperature goes high as 80 degrees Celsius.

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