Interesting Pentium 4 thermal/overclocking investigation for you P4 owners

[NFS4]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/cpu/p4-temp/

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm

 

[Wingznut]

The morale of the story... Don't run your PC in an incubator! 😉


hmmmmmmmmm???

Am I missing something interesting, or are they just confirming that the cpu's Thermal Management kicks in over 72C?

 

[RalfHutter]

They seemed a little upset that the CPUs performance dropped so much once it got over 72°C but I say "so what". If your CPU is that hot something's wrong anyway. Who cares how good it's performance is if something's out of wack with your computer.

Otherwise the article just confirms what we already knew: The P4 protects itself by throttling back if its temp goes over 70°C.

 

[oldfart]

I agree with the above. Nothing new here. I always thought the throttling kicked in @ 67C. The article says 72C. Either way, that is very hot.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
The morale of the story... Don't run your PC in an incubator! 😉


hmmmmmmmmm???

Am I missing something interesting, or are they just confirming that the cpu's Thermal Management kicks in over 72C?

I just thought it was an intriguing article. That's all.

 

[fkloster]

Nothing here to see folks...now move along.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: fkloster
Nothing here to see folks...now move along.

Geez, what a bunch of ungrateful people. Next time, I'll run it by the "forum leaders who determine if a post if worthy"

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: fkloster
Nothing here to see folks...now move along.

Geez, what a bunch of ungrateful people. Next time, I'll run it by the "forum leaders who determine if a post if worthy"

thank you 😛 😀really nice avatar you have there ............

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Geez, what a bunch of ungrateful people. Next time, I'll run it by the "forum leaders who determine if a post if worthy"

That'd be just super! 😉

Don't get me wrong, NFS4... It is an interesting article. And people have been clammering for actual replication of Thermal Management.

I just thought maybe I was missing something because of your "Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm" comment.

I guess people were just looking for something scandalous! 😉

Originally posted by: RalfHutter
They seemed a little upset that the CPUs performance dropped so much once it got over 72°C but I say "so what". If your CPU is that hot something's wrong anyway. Who cares how good it's performance is if something's out of wack with your computer.

Otherwise the article just confirms what we already knew: The P4 protects itself by throttling back if its temp goes over 70°C.

Well, they did say (on more than one occasion) that other processors would've long since locked up under those conditions.

 

[sharkeeper]

The morale of the story... Don't run your PC in an incubator!

Or remove the heatsink! 🙂

I think it would be a lot easier to remove the fan and let the temps rise then put the entire machine in an incubator! :Q

Cheers!

 

[NFS4]

And another thing. I've been in many locations on service calls where computers were placed in EXTREMELY high temperature locations. Some computers in some Burlington Industries locations were subject to some serious heat with machines inclosed in tight areas with little to no circulation.

Also, there was a plant that I went to outside of Greensboro, NC where they make socks, pantyhose, etc for places like JC Penny and Wal-Mart. The building is very old (late 1800's, early 1900's) and the a/c system is little to non-existant. I had to replace a case fan in one of the PC's that controls a portion of the assembly line (and another that was taking orders from Wal-Mart, JC Penny, etc and logging them) and both of the PCs were burning hot and the expansion cards were VERY hot to the touch.


That's why I took an interest in this article to see how the CPU would react in this kind of situation