Hi all,

I have an AMD XP 2400 + retail with the AMD factory approved cooling fan installed. The temnperature is around 54 degree celcius when is in idle and 58 when I'm playing fs2002. Is this temperature normal?

I had a volcano 9(way too loud) on there and the temperature was around 50 when in idle and 54 when playing games

Also the case has a fan on the front pulling air in and another fan on the back  blowing air out. The power supply has two fan as well.

If a better cooling fan is need, can anyone reccomend a quiet one? I was think about buying a coolmaster fan but I'm not real sure.

Hi,
The highest I seen has been 62 degrees celcius. I'm not overclocking though.
A friend of mine has an AMD XP 1700 + and it runs at around 73 degree celcius when idling and I'm sure it runs a lot hotter when playing a game. It's been like that for a while now. He has a Coolermaster CPU fan.

I have a question though. How do you manage to keep your temperature from 37-47?

I bought a new case which has two fans on the back and has room for two on the front but so I put the two on the back and one on the front. However I still get around 50-59, sometimes 60 degrees celcius when playing fs2002.

Thanks for the info. The retails fan that came with the processor is just as good as the ones they have listed on there. I guess I'll keep that retail fan.

I was going to buy this fan

http://www.nexfan.com/evcucoacofrs1.html

But I'm glad I read your post first before I went ahead and blew some money

Hi,

Do you think that going from AMD 2400+ 768 DDR PC2100 memory to AMD 2600+ 1gb ddr 2700 would be a noticeable upgrade or would it just be a little better than what I currently have?

All the best,
Selby

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As others have said, as a general rule Athons run hot. Hence the absolute requirement for a heatsink and fan. The older Athlons with .18 micron technology (I think up to the AthlonXP2100+) were especially prone to this. Newer AthlonXPs with the thoroughbred platform (.13 micron) run cooler but still hot. My Athlon 1.2 consistently hits 60-63 C when running FS2K2.

You might want to invest in a new, quieter heatsink. I understand that the Vantec Aeroflow (check the model) is quiet and highly efficient.

50 to 60 degrees celsius are totally okay. i run my duron 1200 at 57 degrees celsius and it works perfectly.

Well,if money isnt an object I'd get a GeForce FX5900.

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=fx_5900

Before I buy a new card I'd like to know what difference I would see going from a g4ti 4200 64 mb ram to a ATI 9700PRO 128MB ram.

In that case I'm getting that ATI 9700PRO 128

I think you will be wasting your money. The Radeon 9700 is surely a great card but as you know hardware evolves very fast so you will be putting allot of money to change an “obsolete” card to another. The new Radeon 9800pro is your best choice the GeForce FX 5800 is not an option it proved to be a completely failure. The FX 5900 seems to be n the top but I saw some test in toms hardware that say the Radeon has better image quality with AA and Aniso.

269 US $ is a very good price for a 9700pro.