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| Thread ID: 50720 | 2004-10-30 01:44:00 | The easy, free, DIY way to bring your CPU temp down 8 degrees | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 286180 | 2004-10-30 10:42:00 | End of the day, IMHO - It doesnt matter if the CPU runs at 31 or 39.... My P4 2.8Ghz sits between 48 & 59c on my Laptop. Performs fine without a worry.... CPU Usage is sometimes maxed out for hours on end too, doesnt fall over at all! Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 286181 | 2004-10-30 10:51:00 | Laptops are meant to run hotter though. That would not be a good temperature if it was a PC. As for the temperature, I'm just not sure about it. Does 38 degrees sound right for a CPU overclocked from 2.4 to 3.06 GHZ with stock HSF, no thermal paste, and without the fan mod? It seems to low to be true to me, based on other systems I have had. So having it down at 30 - 32 gives me some peace of mind. George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 286182 | 2004-10-30 10:57:00 | Keep in mind CPUs are "rated" by the manufacturers to run without problems up to a certain temp. I think it's like 85c for a p4? 75c for a Tbred? 85c for a Barton? etc... If the systems not crashing under full load stress testing (video encoding or DX9 gaming) for hours on end then its all good - however in the long run its probably better to run them as low as possible but then there's the question of how long you actually want to keep a CPU etc... |
HadO (796) | ||
| 286183 | 2004-10-30 11:36:00 | 85?!?!?! Are you kidding mate? Once upon a time, a few months ago, a PC I had ordered from the supplier (P4 3.0GHZ) had the heatsink misaligned, and the fan couldn't turn. It got up to about 75 degrees and died (temporarily of course). I know this because one of the first things I do after building a PC is to put it into the BIOS 'PC Health' page, and check there isn't some kind of massive problem. Of course, that only became my policy after that particular machine, but the random lockups after 15 seconds alerted me quickly. If I ever saw any PC processor run above 60 degrees I would turn it off immediatly, and either fix the fan or clock it down (because a CPU running that hot either has a broken fan or is massively OC'd). George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 286184 | 2004-10-30 11:47:00 | Sounds like the bios shut down the comp,rather then chip failure,when they overheat with no safeguards then they don't die temperally.They just die. | metla (154) | ||
| 286185 | 2004-10-30 11:55:00 | The point I was trying to make was that it doesn't matter if your CPU is running at 30, 40, 50 or even 60c (even if your HSF is on properly) if it's not crashing your system under prolonged 100% load then its all good. The maximum die temperature for a Athlon XP TBred is 85-90c - its a fact - although this prob would vary with different batches and I would not bother wasting $$$ to find out. |
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