For me, I don't start paying attention till it hits 70C.
Throttling won't start with Prescotts till you hit 80C.
So I doubt any harm will occur if you stay under 80C, and keeping it under 70C isn't to hard.
I was using Motherboard Manager 5, but you can also use an external temp probe if you need accuracy to within a degree, since bios can be off a degree or so, but that correction should be consitant.
I'll still be in college by then, and will have racked up 8 years of tuition debt, rofl. Last thing I'd be spending on is a CPU upgrade, but maybe things will turn out for the better.
If you have 8 years of tuition spending less than $1000 to replace your ten year old computer will hardly be catastrophic. Besides the improvement, whether in productivity or simply just usability, you get in a system after 10 years will well well worth the cost.
CPUs are designed to handle a temperature range without premature failure. Temperatures of an air cooled system under load around 40 or 50 degrees are completely within spec. I got the impression from one post that the person was expecting operating temperatures of 30 degrees. While watching the computer idling is nice, I tend to want to do something with it. Even if you are overly concerned, you don't need to fret until levels reach well into the 60s, and thats only if its there for prolonged periods.
Here are some guideline temperatures. Permanent damage won't occur until you are well past these points.
Yes. I'd have to say for the first week or so that's all we do. But don't forget that we spent all that money so we could play the latest games at full quality and get like a gazillion FPS while doing so. And since that is our ultimate goal, we'd like to make sure that the money we spent doesn't just BURN. Also, I believe most of the posters are first time n00b builders who want to make sure they haven't messed the hell up. Thank you.
It's my fifth year here at TGforumz, and I can tell you that I've seen thing done by noob that you cannot imagine.
Often, noob come here all excited and hyperactive about posting their first post.. and most of the time, they screw up.. And, as I do for everyone that screwup (ask rugger) I make fun of them.. because I know someone will make fun of me if I screw up..
Newbie here. I have a question re: SpeedFan. I've already got a new board and chip coming anyway (AsusA8V and AMD64X2 3800+), but I can't stand a problem I cannot solve.
I know my mobo is going bad on me (suspect latent northbridge failures) since the system will restart when putting any kind of load on it. I d/l'd speedfan after lurking here, and when I did, my temp readings are as follows.
Temp1: 59 <-- I know this is my system temp from Giga-byte's EasyTune
Temp2: 53 <-- I know this is my CPU temp from Giga-byte's EasyTune
Temp3: 82(!) <-- What is this temp pulling from? I know it isn't the 2 HDs since they're separate temp listings (about 33C)
AMD XP 2400+ Thoroughbred
Giga-byte 7vrxp (1.1 rev)
1GB GeiL PC2700DDR
Radeon 9800 PRO
The only time I saw a system temp of 59c, the guy had it set up on his heat register. The legs crumbled!!
Try opening the side panel, and see what happens.
You are probably getting one system temp, one from below the cpu, and one inside the chip. I think you have a calabration problem.
The only time I saw a system temp of 59c, the guy had it set up on his heat register. The legs crumbled!!
Try opening the side panel, and see what happens.
You are probably getting one system temp, one from below the cpu, and one inside the chip. I think you have a calabration problem.
Actually, at 83C I was testing to see throttling effects, and it ran with no errors, but boy, was the cooler putting off some heat!
