I've been searching on google and around some hardware sites and im trying to find what intel rates its p4 northwood's up to as far as temperature goes, for example i seem to recall AMD rates theirs up to around the 80° mark? I know the maximum voltage they officially recommend if that is the right word, is 1.75v but i cant seem to find what they consider to be the maximum temperature for their processors.
The reason i ask is because i stabled off my 2.6Ghz at 3.25 on a 1:1 divider in prime95 by raising the vcore to 1.71 (Reported voltage, set higher in bios because this Epox 4pca3+ seems to undervolt some) but my temps shot up to a max of 69° (MBM5) while under full load prime95 torture test and some other stuff running all at once. I dont know if these temps are entirely accurate, because while idle MBM5 reports 47° and that seems like a pretty huge temp difference between idle and full load. I just want to #1 make sure these temps are safe, and #2 i read somewhere the p4 automatically throttles down if it hits a certain temperature mark thus making it fairly useless to overclock to that point if your hitting that certain temp.
The reason i ask is because i stabled off my 2.6Ghz at 3.25 on a 1:1 divider in prime95 by raising the vcore to 1.71 (Reported voltage, set higher in bios because this Epox 4pca3+ seems to undervolt some) but my temps shot up to a max of 69° (MBM5) while under full load prime95 torture test and some other stuff running all at once. I dont know if these temps are entirely accurate, because while idle MBM5 reports 47° and that seems like a pretty huge temp difference between idle and full load. I just want to #1 make sure these temps are safe, and #2 i read somewhere the p4 automatically throttles down if it hits a certain temperature mark thus making it fairly useless to overclock to that point if your hitting that certain temp.
