how hot is safe for my athlon 64?

[calam63]

I was wondering how hot can my athlon 64 be and still be safe? trying to create a very quiet system and at the moment have a 5v fan on my athlon 64 3200+ w/ thermalright slk-948U

I am thinking I am going to switch my exhuast fan (panaflo 92mm M1B) to the cpu instead - thanks for helping guys

 

[fstime]

I would say anything hoter then 120 is to much. The stock hs ran my cpu at 105F, this thermaltake VENUS 12 w/panaflo 2500 rpm fan runs it 35/93.

 

[JBT]

Do you have cool and quiet enabled??? if not it should help a little

 

[calam63]

no i don't have cnq enabled i fold all day - i installed a 92 mm fan on my cpu now and brought down temps to 49c/120f w00t hopefully this will be on my way toward a cool quiet system