"collapse" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
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> So I am running into the same issue with XP while running a Gateway
> MD2601. Didn't care for Vista, so I purchased a new hard disc ( Seagate
> Momentus 320gb 7,200 rpm ) and threw XP on, with some difficulty I might
> add. In Vista, the CPU run @ 60 C while in XP, I run at about 80-85 C
> without a load. That is one damn hot CPU 
I was recommended
> Speedswitch for XP, but I'd like to understand the root of this evil.
> Vista, being the hog everyone says it is, should be killing the hardware
> resources. Yet XP, second best to Win2kPro, is heating my CPU Hell
> 
. I will try the AMD driver posted here, but I'd like to know if
> anyone knows WTF over. Thanx 
>
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> collapse I thought it was hot for a CPU too at first, but searching Google I found
that this is normal for AMD Turion x2 RM-72.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4201955AA8IBg3
You have to keep in mind the temperature sensor is located in different
places on Intel and AMD.
It maybe AMD places theirs closer to the area generating heat then Intel.
At least, that is what it seems to me.