At the risk of sounding a bit unconcerned, my 1.4ghz Thunderbird Athlon usually shows 60c to 70c in Asus probe (sometimes a little higher), depending on what I'm doing and how warm the room is.
It only has a Volcano 6 (not a 6+) heatsink/fan on it. The system is left on 7x24 and never crashes, ever. We've had brief power outages (where the lights just flicker, but don't really go out) where my monitor shuts off, and the FAX resets itself, but the computer doesn't crash (it does have an Enermax 431w power supply). The motherboard is an Asus A7A266.
Bottom line. AMD chips are speced to operate at up to 95c, so I wouldn't worry for a second about 50c.
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