[mythtv-users] CPU temperature while playing video files

[Ben Kamen]

On 2/22/2010 2:17 PM, 1.41421 at gmail.com wrote:
> My MythTV box consists of a Pentium 4 at 3GHz. My daughter is the main
> user of this box, playing things like Strawberry Shortcake,
> Backyardigans, etc. for hours. I noticed that in those cases the CPU
> temperature climbs to 75C. Is this what is to be expected from the kind
> of activity that MythTV induces in processors, or might this temperature
> be a bit too high?

75'C is too high.

Consider installing a bigger heat-sink. It could even be the thermal grease between the CPU and heatsink has lost some of it's effectiveness. I've seen this on old electronics I've pulled apart.

If you pull the CPU (and don't mind just tryin to clean/replace the heatsink compound), when you've cleaned up the cpu, check the part # on Intel's website and you can get the max running temp for that CPU.

  -Ben


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