max temp of Zacate is 90C!

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?267720-Safe-temps-for-Zacate-E-350

http://products.amd.com/pages/deskt...T1+BGA&f6=18+W&&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Here I was worried that it was getting to 60C at times. Good news. Looks like the thermal limits for Zacate are the same, almost, as GPUs built on the same 40nm TSMC process.

 

[Beraid]

Makes sense, it's ideal for netbooks. Machines that normally have pretty lousy cooling.

side note: I'm so happy to see AMD putting out truly competitive cpus/apus

 

[Munky]

AMD did design Brazos APUs with the same approach as designing a GPU. That's supposedly why they aren't great overclockers but can handle high temps.

 

[Zap]

Looks like the thermal limits for Zacate are the same, almost, as GPUs built on the same 40nm TSMC process.

This still won't stop people from absolutely freaking out over temperatures, since they do when their GPU goes over 70ºC or whatever their freak-out threshold is.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Makes sense. The APU in my mom's Lenovo X120e idles at 50C.

 

[dma0991]

My E-350 would usually be 60C at max load and 65C for certain cases. I somehow do not trust Coretemp with temp reading based that I've used it in the past and it will usually be 15C +-. These days I stick with HWMonitor.

 

[drizek]

I used to run the 7800GTX Go in my laptop at around 117C. It would lock up if it went any higher than that. I had managed to overclock the mobile version to the same speed as the desktop version.

 

[ShadowVVL]

This still won't stop people from absolutely freaking out over temperatures, since they do when their GPU goes over 70ºC or whatever their freak-out threshold is.

yeah i dont let anything go over 65c if i had a zacate that jumped to 70 id make a custom bracket and bolt a v8 to it!

I somehow do not trust Coretemp with temp reading

i dont trust core temp that much either it likes to tell me that my cpu idles @ 12c

 

[Beraid]

I don't know what temp to trust but I let my guard down with CoreTemp for no real reason.

Actually the scariest thing was when I switched over to Ubuntu briefly and checked the temps through that. It said it was generally about 10c higher than under Windows at the same load level.

 

[Ben90]

I still believe we should be using distance to TJMax instead of *C where applicable. Its just a better, more useful system than making up numbers that "might" be our core temp +-15*C.

As for anyone concerned about their temperatures on stock settings, let this be of ease:

 

[Spikesoldier]

I 'downgraded' to a zacate in my HTPC yesterday. Went from an i3 530 and Radeon 4550. Per others' opinions, CPU is just not enough for 1080p flash playback, which isn't a deal breaker for me.

I am very pleased with what I got for $100.

I wouldn't use Realtemp with AMD cpu's, I think those are for intels only?