how hot is too hot?

[UCBPride]

my tb 700@745 is at 48C,

the heatsink on my tnt2 is so hot i cant even touch it for a second without getting burned

and same goes for the heatsink on my motherboard chipset


so, what is the maximum temperature that these things can handle? should I do something like get a better hsf or is this adequate?

 

[Zagloba]

That should be normal....My Viper 770 Ultra, gets pretty hot, I won't touch it because I would get burned. As for my Athlon 1.4...it runs at about 51-53°. So I think you should be ok. Have you noticed any strage behavior...things lock up, sound get lost, system reboots or shuts down by itself?

 

[neuralfx]

ur tbird is fine, if ur tnt2 is that hot, there could be a problem, they dont produce that much heat, and the northbridge, is it a kt133a? either way, no it shouldnt be so hot that you cant touch it .. noticing any problems from it? ..
-neural

 

[UCBPride]

its an Abit KT7 but i took the hsf off because the fan was screwing up and replaced with the standard green heatsink.

btw ive never had a problem with crashes, reboots and such
except ever since i replaced chipset hsf with just a heatsink my usb has been working on and off

 

[UCBPride]

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