Average temperature for a Pentium 4 2.53GHz?

Question

I would like to know what is the minium and the maximum cpu temperature, so I can make sure that it doesn't overheat. My CPU is Pentium 4 2.53GHz bus speed 533MHz.

Answer 1

Well that was a marathon. To make it easy, no real minimum, the lower the better. Basically don't let it go over 60 celsius, and preferably keep it at 50 or lower.

Answer 2

"The Pentium 4 is a seventh-generation x86 architecture microprocessor produced by Intel and is their first all-new CPU design, called the NetBurst architecture, since the Pentium Pro of 1995. Unlike the Pentium II, Pentium III, and various Celerons, the architecture owed little to the Pentium Pro/P6 design, and was new from the ground up. The microarchitecture of Netburst featured a very deep instruction pipeline, with the intention of scaling to very high frequencies. It also introduced the SSE2 instruction set for faster SIMD integer, and 64-bit floating-point computation. Later Pentium 4 models introduced new technological advances such as Hyper-Threading, a feature to make one physical CPU appear as two logical and virtual CPUs.

The original Pentium 4, codenamed "Willamette", ran at 1.4 and 1.5 GHz and was released in November 2000 on the Socket 423 platform, and later Socket 478 from 1.5GHz to 2GHz. Notable with the introduction of the Pentium 4 was the comparatively fast 400 MT/s FSB. It was actually based on a 100 MHz clock wave, but the bus was quad-pumped, meaning that the maximum transfer rate was four times that of a normal bus, so it was considered to run at 400 MT/s. The AMD Athlon was running at 266 MT/s (using a double-pumped bus) at that time.

As is traditional with Intel's flagship chips, the Pentium 4 also came in a low-end Celeron version (often referred to as Celeron 4) and a high-end Xeon version intended for SMP configurations. A dual core version was called the Pentium D."


"The internal chassis temperature for systems based on Pentium 4 processors 2.80 GHz (and below) should be maintained at 40°C (or lower) for chassis in the maximum expected external ambient (which is typically 35°C). The internal chassis temperature for systems based on Pentium 4 processors 3 GHz (and above) should be maintained at 38°C (or lower) for chassis in the maximum expected external ambient (which is typically 35°C)"


"Systems based on Pentium 4 processors 2.80 GHz (and below) should have a maximum expected temperature of 40°C in the maximum expected external ambient (which is typically 35°C). Systems based on Pentium 4 processors 3 GHz (and above) should have a maximum expected temperature of 38°C in the maximum expected external ambient (which is typically 35°C)."


"Pentium 4 processors can operate up to 75º C (167º F) or slightly less, depending on the model, Athlon 64 can run up to 65º C or 70º C (149º F or 158º F), depending on the model, Athlon XP processors can run up to 85º C or 90º C (185º F or 194º F), also depending on their clock, and Sempron processors can run up to 90º C (194º F)."



"....the temperature of a processor can be gauged via a sensor on the motherboard, under the processor. Almost every motherboard comes with a program for reading this sensor; you can find on the Internet many programs for this purpose, such as Motherboard Monitor and Hardware Sensors Monitor (both downloadable at http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/page/download_overclock)."




"Suspect your monitoring equipment and software. There is quite a business now in declaring the "normal" range of temptatures at 50 degrees celsius... but this is gimmickry. "Normal" operating temperature is 60 to 80 degrees celsius. Only when the CPU temperture exceeds that range dramatically should you worry... but that is only if you are using an add-on temperature monitor... not software. The FREE temperature monitoring software is very unreliable. We consistently see software temperature monitors off by 35 percent or more. Temperature scares are merely a way to sell products. "



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