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- ocbeta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Quick,
You are stuck on an island, you need to send e-mail and boil top ramen at the same time. Which CPU do you take with you?
mAthlon 64, as it can run at 100° C and aparatly still operate. - Malakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Quote from the website:
- "Please note that the 'Max. Case Temp.' is the maximum temperature allowable as measured on the exterior of the processor package in the middle directly above the chip die (under the heatsink). It is not the maximum internal ambient temperature of the system enclosure. The term 'case' refers to the processor's package, not the system case." - Malakin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9These temps are fairly meaningless. The Athlon XP will start to crash around 62C but it's listed as 90C. So you might think it means "max temp which the CPU doesn't get damaged at" but then there are processors listed as low as 45C which must be an operating temp. I think the temps mean different things for different processors and the information is a bit jumbled up.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was raised on a 486SX 25mhz with 8mb of ram. Man that takes me back! I remember before there were many sites on the web, I would scan for FTPs and see what game demos I could download. Our 40 mb hard drive seemed limitless. This was when I was like 7 years old. I was literally raised on the internet.
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Nice. The Overclockers.com database is a good one too.
- crackez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's too bad they didn't quote some non-PC processors, like the UltraSPARCs. I know my Ultra 5 running at 333MHz gets quite hot. I had the case off of my Ultra 10 (440MHz US-IIi, 2MB cache) yesterday to install a SCSI card and the CPU was extremely hot to the touch after just sitting at the OpenBoot prompt while I was probing scsi devices...
Sometimes I wonder though what gets hotter in the case, the hard drives, or the CPU. You'd wonder too if you ever burned yourself on a 10k RPM SCA SCSI Drive. - Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Just remember that you shouldn't go all the way to the peak unless you really wish to risk ruining your equipment. OC'ing is for risk takers and people with a bit extra cash to spare if something goes wrong. Last but not least, always overclock in slow increments. If you start noticing crashes or freezes, back off right away!
My Barton 2500 is OC'ed to 2.0ghz, from the standard 1.83ghz. The AMD chips tend to run a little cooler and more potential OC'ing. Just make sure to read up before you try anything! :) - Phil246, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5mines been at about 70 before and ive not noticed any crashes O_o
( its now running much happier at about 40 after installing a new fan ) - 413x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just in case someone doesn't know the free CPU clock utility from Rightmark (there are others but this was the one that I liked most):
http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml
You can use it to switch it to performance on demand, e.g. your (AMD) CPU runs at 800 MHz/0.8V while the system idle and performance is increasing by configurable steps when more CPU power is needed.
So right now my Athlon64 3400 runs at 800MHz and has a core temperature of 32 celcius. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Umm... the melting point of silicon is 1414°C. That's right... one THOUSAND four hundred fourteen.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe there is a saying that for every 10C hotter a microprocessor runs at it's expected life gets cut in half. Just because a processor can run hotter and still run doesn't mean you should skimp on your cooling system.
- vdubski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have you all beat, my first computer was a Commodore 64.
- joefish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had a computer running where the fan died. It suddenly occured to me that it was awfully quiet (which is how I figured tha fan had gone). I checked the temp and it was up to 95 degrees or there abouts. Didn't kill it though. I think that was my Athlon 1000 (although cant quite remember).
I also had a 486 to the point of smoking (which somehow happened when I plugged the reset switch in incorrectly). It still worked though. - Smily, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My CPU fan died once too, strangely I noticed it by the smell first :) Too bad I didn't check the temp, but I rushed and panically unplugged everything that could be unplugged (it would probably burn out soon if I wouldn't have done so).
The AthlonXP 1600+ still works and is stable even at 70°C (I think the max I got to was 74 and it was still working). - Jalexxi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The operating temperature differs with every individual processor. Sometimes you get lucky and it's stable untill 80c, sometimes it crashes at 60. I don't think those values here should be read as is true for every processor, but as average values.
- MrDolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that's funny, I don't see the info anywhere on that site
- veritech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3My overclocked 2600+ runs at 60+ alot of the time, and is just fine. I worry about it, yes, but it's not that bad. The highest i've seen is about 64.
But as a general rule for AMD cpu's i think you should try and stay around half of the quoted temps. mine runs hot because of the location, rather than bad internal ventilation. - CompWiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i had 486 start smoking too
it was an old laptop but it still worked great 33mhz 16mb ram 210mb hd - Nesh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You guys make me feel old. My first pc was a Tandy 1000 8086.
- acariquara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had a K6-2-400AFQ in the past... REALLY picky about temperatures... 60 degrees C was not the maximum working temperature, was the your-computer-is-going-to-have-a-frigging-BSOD-running-"blank-screensaver" temperature.
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4some of those cpus are rated to 95c.....
I can cook a ham on that mother *****. - RWVolkl158, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, our 33mhz 486SX is the first system I remember using extensively. We had an older system (I think it was 12mhz on Turbo 0_o) but I don't remember it very well since we gave it to my brother...
- thushan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good collection and very extensive...
Dont forget chipset's can also get hot so while you cool your CPU, make sure your bridge's dont overheat! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i had a 486dx2 66mhz...
my pc beat yours :P - PRESS_00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My friend has one of those in a laptop. It's the loudest laptop I've ever heard.
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1heheh, cut my teeth on one of those too, but we had an 80mb hard drive. we used thumbs plus file manager in win95 and it did alot of what the preview view in win2k and xp do many years later
- Darthmalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have an Intel celeron that idles around 51 and shoots up to around 70 at full load before the throttling kicks in.
I don't suppose anyone knows how to make an ASUS P4P800-MX speed up the processor fan when the temp goes up? The same fan used to with the original Compaq board but now it won't. It just runs at a constant 4687 rpm.
P.S. I think Digg should put tech words into its spell checker. It tried to tell me Intel was spelled wrong. - MrDolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Never seen that RightMark utility. That rocks! Thanks
- feanor512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My CPU's not listed (Mobile Athlon XP 2600+) but it starts crashing when it gets into the 70s.
- hwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been thinking about replacing my 486DX/66 (Coyote Linux) router with a faster computer, but this story makes me think twice about doing that. It uses a lot less power than the newer, faster, more expensive CPUs.
- thefrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My Athlon 64 3000+ is running cool at 29 Degrees Celsius (case temp 25), granted it's not doing an awful lot, but the hottest it gets is 55 (when compiling or encoding mpeg)
- SNACKeR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1my AMD dual core 3800+ runs at 34 degress - that seems crazy low caompred to other numbers here...why is that? I amusing an Antec P150, and retail fan on CPU.
- noodle1969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats what i have too and my operating temp is 79 not sure if i should leave it at this?
- pd69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2my athlon 1800+ XP is constantly in the 70's and hasnt crashed yet
- silkworm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well, actually, at these temperatures (if they are max operating temperatures which they probably are) CPU should run without crashes at nominal frequency. When it's overclocked, that's another story. Most modern CPUs have thermal shutdown feature, so it doesn't get damaged when CPU fan fails. Shutdown temperature is usually significantly higher than maximum operating temperature.
- pedershk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4The temperatures listed seem to be ambient temperatures AROUND the CPU (Case temperature), not CPU core temperature.
- derjazzmeister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's good to see that the Prescot P IV 3.2 is 70C. I'm frustrated that this is right around where my processor operates--any time I do something just a little taxing, watch a streaming video, rip a CD into iTunes, the thing heats up significantly--up to (or sometimes over) 70 degrees.
Intel made one hot little processor that doesn't cool very well even with its own form factor fan design... - piratebill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1my cpu is the same. I think i am going to OC it now :)
- mrfollicle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2good luck finding anything on that huge chart
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Athlon XP-2500+
(6-A-0 1.83GHz Barton) 1.65V
85° C
well that aint too bad..
- Tom | http://www.tomwrote.info - Halodude1489, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I think some of these are BS because whats the melting temperature of some of the slim peices of silcion in your processor.. shurely lower then 100c thats 212f! I think your motherboard would start to melt thats like sticking your pc in the oven, theres just no way..
- warped, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2All this data is right on Tomshardware.com. no digg
- en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This guy stole the ENTIRE article!! Look here: http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545 This makes me sick.
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