Acceptable Heat for a CPU?

[Weeeman]

Howdy all, FINALLY! got my new computer running. It just seems the CPU is running.. rather hot, atleast for not OC'ing at all.

50-53

Isn't that rather hot?

Have a Silent boost on it

 

[Tiamat]

what case fans... whats the ambient? Im assuming you have some sort of athlon64?
Are those temps load or idle?

 

[Muse]

I'm curious about this too. I'm quieting down my PC's and I want to know what are acceptable and unacceptable figures for CPU temperature, case temperature, chipset temperature. I believe that Motherboard Monitor 5 supplies all these and I run this on both my PC's. Where can you get figures like that? Some guidelines?

I figure I'm going to remove one of my case fans in each PC and I'm making other modifications. For example, I just removed the northbridge fan from one MB. That MB didn't come with a NB fan, but the RAID version did. Come of people mounted NB fans of their own, though, and I picked up one at a computer show and put in on. I noticed it had died and removed it today.

Do you just figure you're OK as long as you're not getting crashes, lockups, etc.? Or do you want to stay under certain limits?

 

[SneakyStuff]

Up to 70'C is considered normal (edit: acceptable) for most CPU's. As long as your computer is working, you're fine

 

[BW86]

yea unless you get some stability problems dont worry about the heat

 

[Weeeman]

It just looked high.

Its a 3200+ I with a silent boost on it.. temps i just got from bios

 

[imported_bushman]

my mobo a7v880 came with asus probe or whatever and when i set it up the maximum allowable temperature was like 80C for processor and i think something around 75 for mobo. im not really sure what that means, but i think those are the max allowable temps, high as they are. i too have a 3200+ with some $5 hsf that came with the mobo cpu bundle and at sys idle it stays at about 55C. if the bios says 50-53 at load it will be higher. when its hotter like above 60 something and you don't have stability probs i believe you'll only have to worry about the lifetime of your part(s). i've got a friend with a 3200+ oc'ed to 2.4 ghz and a thermaltake volcano 7, i think, and it runs above 60C no stability probs, he's just wondering when something is gonna give 'cus he's had the system for a few years like that. the question is, how long are you going to use this cpu for? if you upgrade after a couple of years, running stably at higher temps won't matter, it'll be outa there in the trash or something anyway.

 

[caz67]

My ambient is 32C and CPU is 46C..