Well, I've never had any problems with random crashing on my vostro 1000, but I decided one day for some reason to download core temp... imagine my surprise when I saw both cores on my 1.9 ghz AMD athlon 64 x2 were running at 50 degrees Celsius on idle! I downloaded speedfan to make sure, and it confirms this. Today to test how hot it gets under 100% LOAD on both cores, I used the orthos stress prime 2004 program. I could hardly believe it, but after 12 minutes coretemp displayed the temps of both cores at 87 degrees celcius! I stopped the test right there in fear that the cpu would get even hotter and fry... I'm just surprised it didn't crash before then.

Now, I've heard a rumor that the athlon x2 sometimes displays temperatures up to 20 degrees too HIGH, but I really have no idea. Has anyone else heard of this, or is my computer just hot as *censored*? The computer is still under warranty, so should I send it in to get a new thermal seal or whatnot?Here's some info to look into.....

http://www.heatsink-guide.com/content.php?content=maxtemp.shtmlOK, I found out I have the codename tyler cpu (tk-57 turion), which has a max temp of 95 degrees celcius ACCORDING to this page:

http://www.chiplist.com/AMD_Turion_64_X2_TL_TK_series_Dual_Core_processor_Tyler_Rev_G/tree3f-subsection--2290-/

Does this mean I'm fine assuming I usually only do tasks that bring me up to the 60-67 range?That still sounds really hot.  I would get a new heatsinktemp sounds about average to me high average but they're good all the same you could put an extra fan in the case or try some thermalpaste between the cpu and heatsink if there isn't any but I wouldn't worry too MUCH, multi core cpu's just put out a little more heat. Quote from: computeruler on May 13, 2009, 05:59:09 PM

That still sounds really hot.  I would get a new heatsink