I currently own a craptastic Hp pavillion a420n and according to a program called "motherboard monitor 5" my AMD athleon 3000+ xp processor runs at about 70-72 *Celcius (161 F) while my case is only running at 28*Celcius (82 F)so I"m concerned a with the quality of the heat sink thats on the cpu. Should the temperature be of concern ? and any thoughts or suggestions on a good heatsink I could upgrade to.

Cheers

Gr3g

Does the heatsink have a fan? The HP specs show a Socket A processor. Here is just a quick google on Socket A heatsinks/fans:

http://www.google.com/search?q=socke...an&sa=N&tab=gw

Here are the HP specs re: pavillion a420n:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...388431&dlc=en&

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...cname=bph07139

That temp is very hot. You should try to bring it down.

Originally Posted by jephree

Does the heatsink have a fan?

Yeah it does have a fan.

Is the fan clean? You may want to try to clean & reapply the thermal compound.

Here is another search on copper heatsinks:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...an&btnG=Search

Originally Posted by gr3g88

according to a program called "motherboard monitor 5" my AMD athleon 3000+ xp processor runs at about 70-72 *Celcius (161 F)

have you looked in the BIOS to see what your CPU temp is ?

Edit

I just installed MM5 and according to that my CPU is running at -1 and my case at 96