I HAVE AN ASUS MB WITH A DUAL CORE ATHLON PROCESSOR 4800+.SINCE THE PROCESSOR COOLING FAN WAS FIXED IN A BAD POSITION I REMOVED THE HEAT SINK, CLEANED IT, PUT HEAT SINK COMPOUND AND FIXED IT IN THE RIGHT POSITION. NOW THE PROCESSOR HEATS UP WHEN I RUN ANY APP. THE TEMP. CROSSES THE THRUSH HOLD LIMIT AND A FEW TIMES IT SHUT DOWN. I HAVE TRIED TO USE MANY TYPES OF HEAT SINK COMPOUNDS WITH NO IMPROVEMENT. IF MY SYSTEM IS ON AND WITH NO LOAD IT KEEPS RUNNING FOR DAYS. THANKS & REGARDS. JAVEED

Overheating When the CPU overheats then it will shut down (i.e. thermal overload) and won't boot up again until it has cooled down. If this is the problem is not fixed then the CPU will eventually fail.
A faulty fan causes the problem or the fan and heat sink assembly are clogged with dust.
Check the CPU fan to see if it spins freely, if not replace the fan.
If the fan and heat sink is clogged with dust the remove the dust and make sure the vents are clear and dust free. Use a small brush and can of compressed air to do this.

that can be meaning if the processor is Not Supported with your motherboard,or the New Processor is not in good condition (can be Over Heat or damage).
Processor over heat or damage can be because the HEAT SINK (white or grey pasta at the top of processor) is not enaugh to cooling the processor or,the fan Proseccor is Dirty.

When the CPU overheats then it will shutdown (i.e. thermal overload) and won't boot up again until it has cooled down.If this is the problem is not fixed then the CPU will eventually fail.
A faulty fan causes the problem or the fan and heat sink assembly are cloggedwith dust.
Check the CPU fan to see if it spins freely, if not replace the fan. If the fan and heat sink is clogged withdust the remove the dust and make sure the vents are clear and dust free. Use acan of compressed air to do this.

Check the fans on the motherboard, are they all working?
Have you cleaned out the fans and heatsinks ?
Using compressed air, or even the blower end of a vacuum cleaner blow out the dust in the fans and the cooling fins of any large heat sinks, like the one over the processor.
It sounds like the machine is overheating, the dust is probably preventing air from circulating around the heat sink fins,

AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor

are the best processors for this motherboard

I believe normal temperatures range from 41 to 95. At least from this laptop that is running a dual processor:


http://shopping.msn.com/specs/toshiba-satellite-a215-s5802-15-4-inch-laptop-amd-athlon-64-x-2-dual-core-tk-57-processor-1024-mb/itemid913517877/?itemtext=itemname:toshiba-satellite-a215-s5802-15-4-inch-laptop-amd-athlon-64-x-2-dual-core-tk-57-processor-1024-mb

Also somebody else here had the same type of question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090207210838AA922iE

From my experience as long as its not running over 100 then you'll be fine. If you have any doubts about your computer overheating you can always apply more compound to the heatsink and also buy a bigger one where the fan runs faster to keep things cooler inside of the case and always remember to have the side doors on as well.

Form Factor: ATX (305mm x 200mm)
CPU: Supports Socket-939 Athlon 64 / Athlon 64 FX and Dual-Core (X2) / Sempron with the new v6.0 BIOS and above. Processor interface via 2000MT/s HyperTransport bus.
Chipset: ULi M1689
Main Memory: Four 184-pin DDR DIMM up to 4GB Supports Dual Channel DDR266/333/400 memory.
Expansion Slots: X4/X8 AGP Slot and Five 32bit PCI Slots (v2.2 compliant)
Audio: Realtek ALC850 with 8 Channels
SATA: Supports 2 Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer rates (1.5Gbps burst) with RAID 0 & RAID 1 solution.
UltraDMA IDE Ports: Supports 2 UltraDMA-66/100/133 IDE ports
FDD: One FDD connector supports up to 2.88MB
USB 2.0: Supports total 8 USB2.0 ports with High-Speed Devices at 480 Mb/s Transfer Rates
System monitoring: Two Temperature and Fan Sensors for CPU and System

Hi there.
Here is a list of processors that board will support >>>>>

http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-ASUS/M2A-VM.html

Good luck and thanks for choosing FixYa!!

depends on what you plan to do with the cpu amd are good but a 3200 may only run @ 1.8 to 3.2 ghz depending while a intel 3200 will run 3.2 ghz.
I believe intel are more stable & run cooler than AMD but AMD benchmarks on Games better but run hotter (so get a good cooling fan & heatsink both pentium / celeron d & intel dou / dual core / core 2 dou and amd x2 have 2 cores (but watch your front side bus and cache the higher the better but the more $ also) then You need a good stable mobo that supports the chip you get (I preffer asus & msi for Gamers and biostar / msi for home users)

Nope, it is a DX9 integrated solution - not good for gameing

Integrated Nvidia® Geforce®7Series Shader model3.0 DirectX 9 graphics processor
Maximum shared memory of 256 MB
Supports RGB with max. resolution 1920 x1440 (@70Mhz*32bpp/75Mhz*16bpp)
Supports DVI-D with max. resolution 1920 x1200 (@60Mhz)