Is it just me, or does 205 to 230 degrees Fahrenheit seem a bit excessive for the maximum temperature of a desktop? Yikes! I'm nervous enough about the operating temperature of 122 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit.
> The AMD docs I read said 90 to 95C internal core is the failure > limit. They also said to add 10 to 20C to reported probe > (thermistor) cpu temps, to approximate the internal core temp. > Something overclockers have long known. So 60C from a probe could be > as high as 80C core temp. Unless that's under extreme load (ie, > cpuburn, 100% load), it's too high. If 60C is reported by a > motherboard reading the cpu's internal diode, then 60C is OK. > > From a probe the reported temp would need to be at least under > 60, and maybe under 50C, to qualify as 'acceptable'. IME, for > motherboards which use a probe, +10C is probly OK for temps read > from a cpu pin. Use +20C if a contact thermistor is used. Most > newer boards read from a pin. There's a few motherboards in the > last year, that can read the internal diode AMD began putting in > their XP cpu's since 6/10/02. On those boards the reported temp is > the core temp. With either accurate diode, or approximate/adjusted > probe reporting, you can expect the temps to go up as the cpu ages. > Say about 5C after around 18 months. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html
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