Process Zone heating up on rip/copy

[psal2]

I am using an Intel 3.0 Ghz CPU, 1 gig DDR3200, Pioneer 8X DVD burner (A107?), LG DVD (reader) and whenever I try to do a backup the Intel Active Monitor shows the CPU processor zone heating up to mid-sixties. I need to pause it, let it cool and then continue. This causes a backup to take quite a while. The system has plenty of fans and it only happens during a back up.

I am using DVD shrink and Nero but no heat up occurs during the burn cycle.

Any thoughts why this is happening?

[Krispy Kritter]

Because the cpu is being used to process the data. On data intensive operations such as this, the cpu is probably running close to 100%.

There is no need to pause and allow it to cool, it is normal for this to occur. The same would happen if you were playing the latest game or whatever.

[mats.hogberg]

no heat up occurs during the burn cycle.

...because burning is only I/O intensive, not processor intensive.

/Mats

[Treebeard]

have you cleaned out the inside of your computer lately? may have lots of dust/dirt on fans & heatsinks. mid-sixties is not gonna kill your processsor and it will be fine but you may want to peak inside your case.

[free is better]

what kind of heatsink are you using ? p4 are known to run hot so if you are concerned you might want to invest in a more effiecient cooler.

[TBoneit]

What kind of P4 3.0? The newer ones run hotter than that older versions. Prescott runs hotter than the original 3.0 and of course a dual-core runs even hotter.

I saw a dual core run up ro 90 shrinking in a test for cooling. Was I worried? Nope. If it needed to it was designe to throttle back to protect the processor. Did I look to see why so hot? Yup.

I run the older 3.0 P4 at home, the heat sink runs cool using my low tech digital probe AKA finger on the heatsink.

I do on a regular basis clean the air filter on the front of the case (Lian Li Alum) and blow out the two front of the case fans and the CPU fan and the rear of teh case and power supply fan.