Cpu Heat

[sparhawk]

Does anybody have an idea what a health CUP heat is? My server goes down pretty often and I have the suspicion that it might be overheating. Currently the temperature is 60C and rising, but I don't see how much it has when shuts down and I'm not sure if I should risk it.

[Mr Mike]

Hey Sparhawk,

 

My current AMD3200 64 never seems to get above 35 - 40C but my old AMD 1900XP would be at 60C little after turning on and running a game or whatever... I think anything above 70 is strongly ill advised though.

 

Mike

[sparhawk]

Yeah. I googled a bit and it seems that something over 60C does it. I wonder what I should do against it.

[Mr Mike]

Well, the obvious thing is a decent cold air supply. You checked all that out? What gear is it running?

[sparhawk]

Gear?

 

It has nothing inside. Only the mainboard and a networkcard and a few disc drives.

[Mr Mike]

Hmm well I'm by no means a systems expert so I'd first off check the bios to make sure all fans were running ok etc then give the internals a once over to make sure there's decent ventilation.

 

After that the best I can do is a BUMP

[Irenices]

I use one of these on my cpu, useing a 4000+ 64bit amd and it idles at like 20c and gets up to maybe 30 in games. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835109118 just slap a giant fan on it and your good to go!

[Ishtvan]

It can depend on the particular processor and the thermal sensor too. You can probably look online for your particular processor what the safe temperature range is. Some of the thermal sensors aren't calibrated right and show temperatures that are higher than reality. That's what Intel says about my particular P4C, although it could be that it runs too hot and they just don't want to admit it.

 

That being said, 60 C is pretty hot.

[sparhawk]

Guess I have to go tomorrow in the shop and see what I can do. For now I leave the case open which seems to help.

[Mr Mike]

Yeah, i bought a factory spec CPU, just the chip, and used the money i saved to buy an aftermarket fan etc... Never looked back

[Mr Mike]

Well my last post didn't turn out too well 'cause of the sudden posting frenzy but hey... Spar, leaving the case open isn't usually a good thing as it ruins the aerodynamics of the setup and destroys all through flow.... If it does help then maybe it's a case of blocked inlet vents?

[OrbWeaver]

I had an AMD home-built machine which idled at 60 C and went up to 68 or more when processing. The die was rated to 85 C, which I would have thought of as fairly typical, so I would be surprised if a mere 60 C would cause a lockup.

[Fingernail]

my pc averages around 40 C

 

it's quite an expensive case and has three fans plus the heatsink and graphics card heatsink as well, though, so this could help it a lot.

[Arumakani]

Stick it in the freezer.

[Redface]

Keeping the case open, if it isn't already, should help a bit.

[sparhawk]

I had an AMD home-built machine which idled at 60 C and went up to 68 or more when processing. The die was rated to 85 C, which I would have thought of as fairly typical, so I would be surprised if a mere 60 C would cause a lockup.

 

It's at 60C when I observed it, but so far I haven't seen it locking down, so I don't know exactly at which heat it will really happen. I found a site where the average heats are mentioned, and mine is listed with about 70C, so it is pretty close.

[sparhawk]

Keeping the case open, if it isn't already, should help a bit.

 

That's what I'm doing now and it helps. But I don't want to do this for a long time, because I fear that my kids might get interested in 'how a PC works from the inside'.

[Vadrosaul]

Here is my temperatures immediately after playing Tomb Raider Legend (with everything maxed @ 1024*768) for 2 hours:

 

The system I have is an AMD 64 3800+, ASUS A8N SLI-Deluxe w/ 2 GB Kingston RAM, and one nVidia NX6800GT 256 MB RAM. I do not overclock, nor use any extra cooling techniques, although the stock fan was of good quality.

 

Hope that helps you with your testing

[sparhawk]

MB temp is the same for me, but the CPU heat is higher.

[Dram]

Well mine is usually at about 38 and when rendering video or playing games it can go to about 43 or so. Though I have 3 120mm fans installed with another 80mm on the side. Yes it sounds like a lawnmower.

 

amd athlon xp 2600+ btw