Athlon XP 2100->2400 Prime95 @ 65C, Dangerous?

[letsgetsilly]

Motherboard monitor is reporting it at 65 celcius pretty constantly while running prime 95 stress test...I'm wondering if this is dangerous for the health of the processor, because I know that 60 is kinda the rule of thumb on temperatures.

No crashes yet.

Thanks for any help

 

[Firsttime]

I am on my parents Compaq and its Barton is at 54 idleing right now. You shouldn't kill you CPU at 65 but you would be better off at a lower temp.

 

[Aluvus]

65C is warm but not completely out of bounds for a Thoroughbred. I would still look into bringing that temperature down. Is this with the stock cooling unit?

 

[letsgetsilly]

No this is with a powerful hsf. I forget brand name/type because I bought it a couple years ago, but it sounds like a dust buster.

 

[SynthDude2001]

If you're actually running it at 2400MHz, that's not too outlandish. I used to run an Athlon XP 1700+ at that speed (almost a 1GHz overclock ), and I idled around 52-55C, load was about 10C higher (this was on an SK7 with 4800RPM 80mm fan). I don't think you have to worry all that much, and if you already have a powerful cooler (and good thermal interface material, and good heatsink contact), there's not a whole lot you can do anyway.

 

[nyker96]

get a cooler chip if you can to OC, T-bred don't think is too good when you OC, however as I remember they can take quite a bit of vcore more than the current Sempy 64s.