Highest temp you've seen a CPU survive

[Fixxors]

I just had a cpu just hit 240 degrees, think its still runnin? IM letting it cool now before we test it.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

damn tahts 115-something celcius....I doubt it lol.
For XP CPU's AMD says no more than 90 but that might be a tiny bit conservative. My DD5 reads mine at like 40 but the internal diode says its at 81-83 all the time. It runs though and mine is a 2100 which is a poor overclocker anyway so im not gonna push it

 

[AnMig]

my friend had a T-bird that was running for about a month with just a heatsink (golden orb). It was made by his friend and I guess durring the shiping the fan fell off (snap on no screws). Any way I decided to look at his system put mbm on it and it was running 90 to 100C. I say to myself must be a motherboard problem. Opened his case and there was the fan not spinning and unattached. Now you would think this was the end of it good save but I still fried his t bird when I tried to boot up his computer by just holding the heatsink with my hand (this was when I was first starting out and did not know how fragile these amd cpus where)

But that cpu would probably be still running today if I did not mess with it. Granted all he did was surf the internet.

 

[Fixxors]

ok folks check this out:

CPU= Athlon 1700xp

Mobo= Gigabyte GA-7VKML

Heatsink/fan = Retail

Fan = Left unplugged by a moron

High temp = 249 degrees farenhiet


CPU lives. Purrin like a kitty.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

wow

 

[tohlya]

Athlon XP 1600+
Epox 8KHA+
Temp: 258 degrees F or (70 deg C)
Copper inlaid Heatsink with 80 mm 5000 rpm fan

Grilled Fan caught one of the smaller wires in 3 to 4 pin adapter.

CPU still running.

 

[psteng19]

Bought a new hard drive and used motherboard.

Put them in the system, and had to partition/format/install windows XP on it.
It was quite a looong process (80 gigger).

Maybe 3 hours later, after Win XP and other apps were done installing, I put on MBM only to find that the cpu temp is 68 C.
It turns out that the cpu fan header was dead, and I had no fan running, just a heatink on a 1 Ghz T-Bird.
And this was only a couple of weeks ago.

Grilled Fan caught one of the smaller wires in 3 to 4 pin adapter.

LOL, same thing happened to me on my other 1 Ghz system, but for only a couple of mins.
Wire from the ORB got caught between the heatsink fins.
I thought something was funny when it was extremely quiet inside the case.

 

[Jeff7]

Don't know the temp, but the heatsink wasn't quite on all the way, and it turned the arctic silver into a reddish powder. CPU survived though.

 

[Fixxors]

Imso glad its still alive. I guess we've all had our days of leaving a fan unpluged and whatnot heh Anyone know what temp boiling is? I think that cpu woulda cooked a steak in bout 30 seconds.

 

[Jeff7]

If you mean water, then boiling is 212F/100C. I think there was a site somewhere that they used a SPU to cook an egg - they made up some funky heatsink that also served as a mini frying pan.