AMD64-3200 left running with CPU fan off...

[BoboKatt]

Last night I had moved around a hard drive in my second rig to make some better air-flow in my case and then closed it up and booted up again. I went ahead and played some games and then left it running while downloading, running a full virus scan and de-fragmenting. When I came back to it the CPU temp from ?speed fan? was showing my CPU temp at 88 C. I really thought it was a mistake and never bothered to check. Anyhow after a while I shut down and opened up my case to find that I somehow had gotten a cable stuck in the massive CPU fan (a Zelman with the big fins) and it was completely stopped.

My question... should not the AMD have shut down..? I thought it would at least throttle down on my Neo2 Plat 939 board?? Also it had no problems running at 88 C for hours and in fact BTW my AMD64-3200 (2000 MHz) stock is overclocked to 2400MHz and it never crashed.. not once!! How the hell is that possible when I was crying originally that I could not keep my temperatures below 50 at full load? Here it is running at 88 C for hours and it never froze or hung or anything.. hum?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Thats amazing:shocked: Whinchesters normally shut themselves down at 70c?

 

[fstime]

My AMD shuts off by it self when it gets to hot.

 

[Fenuxx]

Here's your sign...

 

[Sentential]

I do not belive that AMD has a thermal-throtteling mechanism besides CNQ. Frankly I am not entirely sure but I would suspect no considering the max die temp of a winchester is aprox 65c*

 

[Doctorweir]

Holy... :Q
Better turn on your CPU Fan warning...

Edit: You should try to overclock more now as the CPU is fully burned in now

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Sentential
I do not belive that AMD has a thermal-throtteling mechanism besides CNQ. Frankly I am not entirely sure but I would suspect no considering the max die temp of a winchester is aprox 65c*

They don;t have thermal thottling, but they do shut down when they get too hot. Since that 88c may not be accurate, it must have not gotten too hot, and Winchesters do run very cool. Still pretty amazing!

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Originally posted by: Doctorweir

Edit: You should try to overclock more now as the CPU is fully burned in now

AMD 3200+.............$175
Neo2 Platinum..........$120
The above quote.......$priceless

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Sentential
I do not belive that AMD has a thermal-throtteling mechanism besides CNQ. Frankly I am not entirely sure but I would suspect no considering the max die temp of a winchester is aprox 65c*

They don;t have thermal thottling, but they do shut down when they get too hot. Since that 88c may not be accurate, it must have not gotten too hot, and Winchesters do run very cool. Still pretty amazing!

I always thought that AMD was too aggressive with its thermal die max temps on the A64s. I guess this proves it.

 

[PetNorth]

There is a confusion with this issue. 65º (Winchester, 70º Newcastle) isn't thermal die max, but case temp max recommended.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content...e/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30430.pdf

 

[imported_Kensai]

Heh. I've left my ClawHammer 3500+ running for days and it still hasn't shut off, do I highly doubt it.

 

[superkdogg]

First, count yourself lucky.

Second, your temps are probably being recorded too high. Since you couldn't stay under 50 initially and you apparently ran at 88 for a handful of hours I'd guess that your temps are off a few degrees. However you look at it, it's pretty cool for you and for anybody else with one of those to know that it's got some thermal headroom.

Check your bios too-you need to turn on either the alarm, the auto-shutoff or both

 

[Avalon]

Same thing happened to me with my Sempy 2800+ while it was running at 2.6ghz. I had either taken something out, put something in, or moved something around in my case, but I guess I had moved the fan wire and it got caught in my Zalman HSF and caused the fan to stop spinning. After a while, one of my games crashed on me. Since warmer weather was approaching, I thought maybe the higher ambient temps were enough to throw off my stability and that I was going to have to back down my overclock for the summer. Well, I checked speedfan, and it was showing that my chip was running at 72C. I instinctively looked inside my case, and sure enough the fan was caught not spinning.

 

[Sp33d]

"AMD 3200+.............$175
Neo2 Platinum..........$120
The above quote.......$priceless"

bravo

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: PetNorth
There is a confusion with this issue. 65º (Winchester, 70º Newcastle) isn't thermal die max, but case temp max recommended.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content...e/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30430.pdf

Ah ha... I thought something seemed off. Thanks for that link

 

[Daddyjaxx]

You did have the heatsink still on. That would have helped dissipate the heat a little.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Sentential

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Sentential
I do not belive that AMD has a thermal-throtteling mechanism besides CNQ. Frankly I am not entirely sure but I would suspect no considering the max die temp of a winchester is aprox 65c*

They don;t have thermal thottling, but they do shut down when they get too hot. Since that 88c may not be accurate, it must have not gotten too hot, and Winchesters do run very cool. Still pretty amazing!

I always thought that AMD was too aggressive with its thermal die max temps on the A64s. I guess this proves it.

Proves what, That they can withstand what they are supposed to withstand ? I never believe motherboard temps readings.....

 

[DrCrap]

Originally posted by: Daddyjaxx
You did have the heatsink still on. That would have helped dissipate the heat a little.

yeah... one hell of a HS.
talk about passive cooling...