Does Pentium 4 have a thermal sensor?

[da na]

Does the Pentium 4 (specifically the 631) have a thermal sensor? I guess no - whether I'm playing Halo: Combat Evolved or just sitting on the desktop of XP it's always at 25 c. The motherboard's, however, fluctuates between 30c and 50c in AIDA64 Extreme. Why is this? Specs: Intel Pentium 4 HT, Compaq 7600 SFF, GeForce 210, Samsung 80gb HDD, XP SP3

[Jurrunio]

It has thermal throttling capability but I dont think it produces any reading. If there is one it will be read through the super I/O chip on the motherboard. I dont know if this motherboard uses one with software support but sounds like the motherboard reading you're getting is as good as it will be

[LIGISTX]

16 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Does the Pentium 4 (specifically the 631) have a thermal sensor? I guess no - whether I'm playing Halo: Combat Evolved or just sitting on the desktop of XP it's always at 25 c. The motherboard's, however, fluctuates between 30c and 50c in AIDA64 Extreme. Why is this? Specs: Intel Pentium 4 HT, Compaq 7600 SFF, GeForce 210, Samsung 80gb HDD, XP SP3

Just a note if you were not aware, don’t plug a XP machine into the internet… pretty quickly way to get your network compromised. Or put it in its own separate vlan with firewall rules disallowing traffic from that vlan to your other ones, basically sand box it. 
 

Maybe you knew this already, just always making sure folks are aware

[da na]

15 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Just a note if you were not aware, don’t plug a XP machine into the internet… pretty quickly way to get your network compromised. Or put it in its own separate vlan with firewall rules disallowing traffic from that vlan to your other ones, basically sand box it. 
 

Maybe you knew this already, just always making sure folks are aware

Yep, aware of this, but thanks!