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@xxxxxx> 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.