CPU operating temps

[tris-]

does anyone know a safe operating temperature for an Ahtlon 1.1GHZ? idle its at 42 and goes to maybe 49 C during games such as BF1942 or RtCW. are these safe temperatures or is my heatsink buggerd? it says on the box "for Ahtlon xp upto +2200" so surely it should be doing the job?

 

[Embattle]

Its fine, tbh as long as you can keep it below 50 you're doing fine.

 

[Will]

Temperature is a weird issue. As a rule of thumb, does it crash when I do anything intensive? If you can say no, its fine.

Not that I have a CPU running at almost 70C under load.

 

[Gef]

65 - 70c is the danger zone where random 'bad things' will start to happen, on Athlons that is. Not sure about Intel chips, although I hear AMD chips do run at a slightly higher temperature anyway.

Use SiSoft Sandra, you can run a 'burn' test to really hammer your CPU for 30 mins. If it doesnt hang then your fine and quit worrying about it

 

[Will]

I run Seti@home every night, and it seems stable enough. I've never quite hit 70C, it tops out at 69C.

 

[Dr_Weasel]

I have an 1800XP thats been running seti 24/7 for the last week and a half. Its currently at 37C! Then again, I do have 3 of the worlds biggest fans mounted in my case and the biggest dual fan heatsink I could find

(The case fans aren't even turned up to full cos it sounds like a hoover running if I do )

 

[adams901]

I just updated my BIOS to Verson 1010 and my CPU Temperature (I have an Athlon XP2200) has fallen by 10C .

My temperatures are now....

CPU: 33C(91F)
MB: 28C(88F)

Graphics Card Chip temperature : 53C(127F)

I have 4 fans from PC Worlds OEM Section and a GlobalWin FSP82 heatsink and fan from aria.

The best bit about it is all these fans and they make hardly any noise

 

[Sawtooth]

On the AMD site they used to say that their Athlons opperate up to 80 oC but I guess thats using a better measure than your onboard probe.
I have the 2.2 GHz and the upper temp on mine under load is 40-45 oC. Biggest change that lowered temps for me was getting a full tower.