How hot is too hot for Athlon CPUs?

[RampRat]

I searched AMD website but could not find what were the acceptable (you don't risk melting anything) temp ranges for Athlon CPUs and their cases. Mine is a TBird 850 not overclocked. Thanks.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

90C up to 1.0Ghz
95C for the 1.2-1.1ghz.

These are max-rated DIE temperatures. Unfortunately, there's no way any end-user can easily measure these. THey have to rely on the craptacular socket-thermistors to "measure cpu temp"...

Due to compression factors, for most boards, 55C with probably the limit between stability and instability(and probably darn close to 90-95C die temp). It is a bit warmer, say 60C or so for an A7V 1004 Bios or later.

These numbers aren't absolute, htey're just general observation numbers.


Mike

 

[junky]

Mike,

My 1ghz Tbird runs about 32C at idle. The highest I've seen it get under load is 48C. Case temp is usually around 19C.

This is on a KT7 board with UL-bios (temperatures reported by MBM 5).

I'm using the stock heatsink/fan and 3 case fans (2 exhaust, 1 intake) in an Aopen HX08 case.

Does this seem like a safe temperature range?

If you had to guess, what would you estimate the ACTUAL die temp to be?

Thanks.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Die temp probably right around 49-50C or so. The UL Bios +10 Compensation works fairly well at certain speeds(usually aroudn 1ghz, but 1.2ghz + a hedgehog also seems to work with teh +10 Compensation).

So for you, while you still get compression problems comparing stuff, the compensation is giving you a fairly good appoximation of die temp.

Mike

 

[AmazonRasta]

According to my Asus A7V revision 1.02, my CPU (Thunderbird 1.0GHz @ 1.224GHz) temperature is 48C full load and 38C idle. I think that's a bit on the warm side, but well within boundaries.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

AmazonRasta,

Remember that A7V bios' tend to compensate more than Kt7 bios. THe A7v usually reads "higher" temps than other mb's.


Mike