On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:
A couple years ago, I spent many frustrating hours trying to find out the max safe temp for my CPUs. Somewhere, somehow, I =finally= stumbled across the following and saved it to disk. Hence my concern when it hits 60C.
Intel Pentium D 930 Max. temp. 63°C
It sounds like your heat-sink isn't seated properly or the cooling fan has something wrong with it. You could get some new heat paste and reseat the heat-sink and try to get it working better or just buy a new heat-sink. But really it's probably not worth it. A Pentium D was never a great CPU, it is very power hungry and not nearly as fast as more recent 64bit CPUs. http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0018-411020/computers-and-it-equipment/dell- inc-optiplex-780-small-form-intel-r-core-tm-2-duo-cpu-e8400-3-00 I've got systems with better CPUs from piles of junk that were destined for e- waste recycling. If you don't have access to such junk piles then you could go on Grays Online and buy the cheapest system on sale and get something a lot better than what you currently have. The above system which is now at $24+postage and 15% auction fee would be way better than your current system. http://www.graysonline.com/computers-and-electronics/computers-and-it- equipment The above URL has links to all the current Grays computer auctions. Make sure that the items you bid on don't have any faults listed and that they can be delivered to you. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/