my friend has a AMD Athlon 3500+ and he wants to know the temps it should be,
right now his runs idle at like 46 celcious and under load it is like 52 celcius
If it's overclocked a bit, then it's fine. But if not, they seem high, I would re-apply some thermal paste, just put some the size of a grain of rice and spread it around. Also if the ambient temp is high, then there isn't too much you can do.
I just want to thank everyone for posting this info i am the friend that compman was talking about....this is my first post...thanks again more feedback is always wonderful
plus my room is kinda the warmest in the house so yea i guess i have alot of ambient warm air
If you have good contact between the processor and heatsink (meaning thermal paste), then you either the fan speed needs to be turned up, you need to dust the inside of your pc (a can of compressed air should work, can be bought at alot of places), or you need to find a way to get the temp down in your room.