Do you have an Athlon XP CPU?

I'm also using athlon xp 1.7 and 1.8, both of them perform great for me, I allready forget when I bought those two pcs, my athlonxp 1.7 also very hot, it could get to 59 degrees celcius when full loaded, but it's ok, as long as it doesn't burn, its ok, just make it work for me, now I bought newer amd processor, amd 64 3000+, its cool, but I still use my old athlonxp.

I never had a problem with temperature regarding my AMD processor... All you have to do is make sure that you don't over clock the processor, it's most likely caused of processor overheating... Next Circulate the airflow in your chase... it help me to over clock my sempron 1600 as far as 1.8 GHz... Use more fan that blows air directly to your processor... Hope my tips help you...

yes i do i have an athlon xp 2600+ since 2004

AMD Athlon XP processor family is the successor to the Athlon CPU family. Palomino, the first Athlon XP core, had a few improvements over the previous Athlon core: Full set of SSE instructions Palomino core added a data prefetch mechanism. Increased the size of the Translation Look-aside Buffer. All Athlon XP Palomino CPUs had 266 MHz bus speed, and were manufactured using 0.18 micron technology. Next revision of Athlon XP core, called Thoroughbred, was manufactured on newer 0.13 micron technology, and as a result, had smaller die size and lower power dissipation than the Palomino core. Bus speed of some Thoroughbred processors was increased to 333 MHz. Bus speed of Athlon XP family was increased even further with the introduction of Barton core. In addition to faster bus speed the Barton core also had twice as much L2 cache memory - 512 KB. Athlon XP Barton CPUs were manufactured on the 0.13 micron process. Thorton, the last Athlon XP core, was the same as the Barton core with L2 cache size slashed in half - from 512 Kb to 256 Kb. Starting Athlon XP family, all AMD processors were marked with rated speed. Please see AMD Athlon XP identification page for relationship between rated speed and actual speed of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors.

As above you have said that during summer it becomes very hot .So why anybody prefer that processor ?I have a processor of intel pentium .It is normal in all seasons .It is also fine to process all tasks .I think in capablity it is no lesser than Athlon .

I have an Athlon XP mobile since 2003 too. My laptop (an emachines) becomes very hot during summer. My hard drive even crashed last summer and I suspect that the heat was one of the reasons of this crash. I thought that the battery was the reason of the overheating problem, and I actually removed it. But now, you mention the processor itself, that might be the problem as well. I will have to do some reading on the internet about this processor.

no i do not have but i think to buy one with supported maother board future

i too using Athlon 3000+ in earlier reviews Athlon gets hot fast. but they have fixed this problem .