26 Jul
2004
26 Jul
'04
1:38 p.m.
Last Monday 26 July 2004 00:08, Rick B was like:
50 degrees C is not very hot, from my experience.
Especially if you did
not turn up the voltage on your CPU. Most processors have thermal
cuttoffs that kick in around 80C. Under high load (~95% CPU utilization)
my Athlon 2500 that is OCed will run at about 50C and that is with the
default voltage, and that is about the norm from what I have read.
Without a load it runs ~40C. Raising your CPU voltage is what will get
you into trouble, as part of the extra power is turned into heat.
Last Monday 26 July 2004 03:44, Ryan Underwood was like:
ust for another data point, I have a 533MHz Coppermine
Celeron which
has been running at 800Mhz (100MHz * 8) for over 3 years now. Never
given me a lick of trouble at that speed. I did bump up Vcc by
1/10 of a volt to ward off any potential marginal behavior. Perhaps you
could try the same. I would not recommend more than a .2V increment,
because it starts to be a rather large percentage increase.
OK, the voltage is automatically set by my motherboard, so I don't think I
could touch it even if I wanted to. From what I've read so far, it's possible
that these processors will run stably at this speed, it's just not a
guarantee, so they've been rated very conservatively. I'll keep watching for
signs to the contrary.
cheers
tim hall