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But be aware that 90C is the maximum _die_ temperature (the
temperature of the silicon chip itself). The "CPU temperature"
reported by the typical motherboard and/or motherboard monitoring
utility is measured directly underneath the CPU package, and is quite
a bit lower than the die temperature. Newer chips/utilities allow you
to monitor what is generally called the CPU diode temperature, which
is much closer to CPU die temperature. "Old-fashioned" CPU
temperatures above 60C would generally be deprecated.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:24:01 +1000, "Moir" <lvr181@nospamhotmail.com>
wrote:
>Thanks Jim & Stringfellow
>
>90c is the answer.
>
>
>"Moir" <lvr181@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:u7daMw7uEHA.940@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> I am running an AMD Athlon2000 processor and was wondering what is the
>> maximum temp I can safely run this processor at?
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
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Peter R. Fletcher