I run the A7V/800 Tbird in the low 50's and its very stable. I wouldn't worry.

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:14:50 -0500, Gerrit Houweling wrote:

>Does anyone REALLy know what the safe temp. is ? My thunderbird 900 runs
consistently at 52-55 degrees Celsius and the threshold is set at 85 degrees.
According to what I can find at the AMD site that seems OK, I'am using a Cooler
Master heatsink/fan that is rather beefy as well.
>
>Some of the AMD specs are referencing up to 70 C but I am not sure if they are
using the same reference points as my monitoring utility, IOW are we taking the
temperature at the same points?
>
>REgards,
>
>Gerrit H.
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/24/01 07:24AM >>>
>The CPU is a bit too hot, but it's not the problem (will be problem later,
>you'd better do something now rather than later. Keep it under 50C !). If
>you already downloaded the latest driver for your SB card, try this:
>
>
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