P4 630 cpu temp

my dad has a P4 630 3.0 Ghz and ti runs at around 122 F degrees under a 50% load acheived by the Itunes visulizer and Band in Box
I am just wondering if thats an alright temp or not the cooler was just installed a day ago it is a masscool 7WD01L3 cooler he used arctic silver 5 on it I know
do you think it is going to get a tad cooler yet?

 

122*F converts to 50*C

 

My old P4 670 was at 149°F on full load and 131°F at around half load.

 

thank you his case has horriable air flow but we are doing what we I opened a vet he has on it, that helped a bit it came down 10 degrees

 

One thing that can help is tying wires out of the way with some zip-ties. Cables don't exactly make for good airflow.

 

yes I have tied cables and also taked the ribbon cables and made them into round ones

 

The later Pentium 4 and Pentium D models were based on the Cedar Mill (single core) or Presler (dual core), which aren't exactly cool under load. My Pentium D 920 can run around 25-27*C at idle, but can shoot up past 40*C with about 50% of a load.

You might consider using a hole saw and put a fan in the side of the case to cool the system down.

 

this is a prescott core chip I am reffering to
but thank you