Anybody Know What The Max Temp For An Athlon Mobo Is?

[plantboydude]

I got mi self an A7M-266 with Athlon 1.33Ghz (266) @ 1.42Ghz and 256 Crucial PC2100, and Asus iPanel
My A7Ms temp was at 39c (CPU is almost idle) until I used CPUCool, which brought it down to 37c. I have not experienced any crashes yet, so the high readings don't seem to be a problem, but I just wanted to know what temperature would be dangerous for the Mobo.
BTW, the ROOM temp is about 27c, CPU is 45c @ idle and with CPUCool Running, without CPU cool it runs at 51c @ idle.
My Cooling
ThemroEngine with Delta fan @ 7500RPM With ASII (Its a noisy babe)
Enermax 350W PSU = One of it's Fans is running @ 3200RPM (sucking air out).
One 80MM Fan sucking air in.
Old ThemoEngine Fan sucking air out.
My mobo temp shot up today after I installed the Delta fan on the ThermoEngine. Basically the Delta fan is chucking out loads of hot air which is not being removed from the case fast enough.

If you are thinking of using a Delta fan on your heatsink just make sure you have plenty of case fans venting out the Hot Stuff or the will be very little in temp decline, as I have found out.

 

[buck]

For CPU, I would say that for me (IMO) 60C is the limit, it can go higher, but I wouldnt want to.

 

[chainbolt]

The maxaimum die temperature, as specified by AMD in the technical documentation for the current Athlon family with 1.75 core volts is:

up to 1000 MHz: 90 Celsius
above 1000 MHz: 95 Celsius

These are the official AMD maximum temperatures for the CPU die (core). Looks a bit high though, but if the manufacturer says so, you can expect that there is at least a 10% safety cushion in. The problem is somehwere else: the Athlons are very fast getting hot. A 1.33 Giga does not survive 5 seconds without a heatsink.
That is why some of the newer AMD boards have this safe-guard function. They don't boot, if there is now fan connected to the CPU HS.

 

[plantboydude]

Thanks.. But I'm not really worried about the CPU temp, my Concern is the Motherboard Temperature.

 

[chainbolt]

ahhh, that's an interesting point, I have never seen any temp specification in a mobo manual, and they are getting hot! But I think it's of much less concern than the CPU temp, because, as I said,
it takes less than 5 seconds to fry the CPU.

 

[plantboydude]

Ok.. I found something.. Asus PC Probe recommends this:
Motherboard Tempurature
Normal = 30c
Max = 60c

CPU
Max = 100c

BTW, Asus PC Probe is not reporting incorrect temp readings.

 

[Moohooya]

I would say normal is no more than 10C above room temp. A max of 60 sounds reasonable. If your mobo is ever more that 15C above room, you have serious cooling issues. If your room is over 45C, get out of there before you die.

 

[plantboydude]

lol