Is 67deg C hot for an AMD Athlon XP 3200 2.19GHz processor

A mate at work builds PC's quite often, and his just sold me his previous PC

Its a Gigabyte GA 7N400 Pro2 with an
AMD Athlon XP 3200 2.19GHz processor
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT Graphics card
And a couple of SATA disks

The CPU runs about 67 degrees most of the time with a system temperature of around 38 deg C. It has an Akasa variable speed fan on it (which I always have turned up to full speed)

When I was building the software up on the machine I never had a problem.
Lately the PC has just been randomly shutting itself down during the first say 20 minutes. I could possibly put this down to replacing ZA (with no firewall) for Kapersky Internet Suite as the shutdowns started happening within a day or so of me doing this, whereas previously I had no such problems. I turned compatibility mode off yesterday and this morning it didn't turn itself off, although it's a bit too early to tell if this was the cause

Anyway, back to the CPU - is this is a bit on the warm side? I am a bit wary of removing the old heat sink and replacing with another one as he suggested if it won't make much difference, especially when it comes to applying the thermal paste. The temperature seems fairly consistent in both the BIOS at boot up, and when windows is running (using the Easy Tune -> Health Status) monitoring tool
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Mike News
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