CPU Temperature

Not a problem but I bought a gateway computer that has an AMD Phenom
quad core with 3gigs of ram.It came with Vista Home premium installed on it.
OK so I dislike Vista so I rounded up all My drivers and bought another
Harddrive and installed XP on it.Both os run very good with the
exception that on XP the AMD runs about 8 degrees C hotter than on
Vista.On Vista it idles at about 42c and on XP about 50c.
I contacted AMD and they said it was within specs.I am wondering if
anyone else has ever come across this situation.I used Speedfan and My
bios to arrive at these temperatures.
I have built a lot of computers before but I always used Pentium and I
never realized how much hotter AMD runs.

50-C ( 122-F ) seems fine. I have a C2D e6600 and it idles at 50-C.
A lot of times it's the amount of Thermal Paste ( or Pad ) and how the
Heat Spreader contacts the fan assembly that makes a big difference.
Not sure why your setup has XP higher, generally I've always seen a
higher CPU reading using Vista. The other factor is the Nanometer
spacing of the CPUs. I think Intel is at 45-nm and AMD is still using
a wider spacing ( 65-nm ) in it's chip fabrication.

"Dino" <dino@nospam.none> wrote in message
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> Not a problem but I bought a gateway computer that has an AMD Phenom quad
> core with 3gigs of ram.It came with Vista Home premium installed on it.
> OK so I dislike Vista so I rounded up all My drivers and bought another
> Harddrive and installed XP on it.Both os run very good with the exception
> that on XP the AMD runs about 8 degrees C hotter than on Vista.On Vista it
> idles at about 42c and on XP about 50c.
> I contacted AMD and they said it was within specs.I am wondering if anyone
> else has ever come across this situation.I used Speedfan and My bios to
> arrive at these temperatures.
> I have built a lot of computers before but I always used Pentium and I
> never realized how much hotter AMD runs.

Have you downloaded the driver for XP?
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._15259,00.html


"Dino" <dino@nospam.none> wrote in message
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> Not a problem but I bought a gateway computer that has an AMD Phenom quad
> core with 3gigs of ram.It came with Vista Home premium installed on it.
> OK so I dislike Vista so I rounded up all My drivers and bought another
> Harddrive and installed XP on it.Both os run very good with the exception
> that on XP the AMD runs about 8 degrees C hotter than on Vista.On Vista it
> idles at about 42c and on XP about 50c.
> I contacted AMD and they said it was within specs.I am wondering if anyone
> else has ever come across this situation.I used Speedfan and My bios to
> arrive at these temperatures.
> I have built a lot of computers before but I always used Pentium and I
> never realized how much hotter AMD runs.

John Barnes wrote:
> Have you downloaded the driver for XP?
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._15259,00.html
>
>
>
> "Dino" <dino@nospam.none> wrote in message
> news:eRKVWSrkIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Not a problem but I bought a gateway computer that has an AMD Phenom
>> quad core with 3gigs of ram.It came with Vista Home premium installed
>> on it.
>> OK so I dislike Vista so I rounded up all My drivers and bought
>> another Harddrive and installed XP on it.Both os run very good with
>> the exception that on XP the AMD runs about 8 degrees C hotter than on
>> Vista.On Vista it idles at about 42c and on XP about 50c.
>> I contacted AMD and they said it was within specs.I am wondering if
>> anyone else has ever come across this situation.I used Speedfan and My
>> bios to arrive at these temperatures.
>> I have built a lot of computers before but I always used Pentium and I
>> never realized how much hotter AMD runs.
>
I downloaded that driver right after install,but thanks anyhow for
trying to help.

"Dino" <dino@nospam.none> wrote in message
news:eRKVWSrkIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Not a problem but I bought a gateway computer that has an AMD Phenom quad
> core with 3gigs of ram.It came with Vista Home premium installed on it.
> OK so I dislike Vista so I rounded up all My drivers and bought another
> Harddrive and installed XP on it.Both os run very good with the exception
> that on XP the AMD runs about 8 degrees C hotter than on Vista.On Vista it
> idles at about 42c and on XP about 50c.
> I contacted AMD and they said it was within specs.I am wondering if anyone
> else has ever come across this situation.I used Speedfan and My bios to
> arrive at these temperatures.
> I have built a lot of computers before but I always used Pentium and I
> never realized how much hotter AMD runs.

Seems about right. 50C is nothing to be worried about at all. You are well
with in spec.

AMD isn't really hotter. In fact a few watts cooler. The new quad CPUs
generally run around just under 100 watts. Not like a 35 watt AMX X2 or 75
watt P4.

But one has to like quad core, sure has kick. Download, AV, surf, run MqSQL
crazy, less impact. Both AMD and Intel quad cores are good choices. But
for dual core, AMD I like. It bounces back and forth.

Part of the reason probably is that XP perhaps is not power conserving as
much as Vista. But it is also one of the reasons why XP is faster too, it
does not have to wake-up to get going in a hurry.

I hear you on Vista, just haven't succumb to buying a second copy of the OS
in XP variety yet.