hmm, well, how about the *safe* temps for it? Recommended max before causing irrersable heat damage to the processor?
ambient temp about 70degrees F, Radeon 9800 Pro, i875p chipset MoBo (dell computer, swapping out mobo soon) however, interestingly enough, the cpu is isolated from the rest of the case by a green plastic tunnel that leads to its own 80mm exhaust fan. after a few weeks of burn-in on my mobo, gonna try my hand at overclocking. Going with an Abit IC7-Max3. i was just wondering what kind of temps i should be trying to keep it at/under in order not to damage the chip or shorten its life-span significantly (need it to last until the Athlon FX series becomes affordable, so a year or so i would imagine) as far as ventilation goes, its ventilation is sort of isolated from the rest of the case as i explained above, but other than that, there is no real active ventilation other than a VGA silencer on my R9800pro. would it be better to remove the green plastic "wind tunnel" from the processor and allow it to suck air from the whole case?
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