AMD says around 50c is fine. In my experience, keep the CPU under 55c. When
you run programs (eg games), CPU would be hotter than doing nothing (sit in
windows), so that if you see 50c when you boot into windows for 10min and
doing nothing, it will go to 55c if you play games. When your CPU hits 85c,
it will most likely crash your PC, I set my CPU threshold to 64c, but I
never let it runs over 55c (run Q3 NV15 demo half hour, than read the temp).

Different hardware monitor also gives different reading, keep this in mind.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerrit Houweling" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:14 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] ATHLON or Thunderbird safe operating temperature?


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?

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