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Tbird and ABIT KT7A Bios CPU temp?

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LIVAN

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I know the PC health in the ABIT Bios is not the best place for getting accurate temps. But it still gives a good relative reference. What is a good temp to have?40 C too high?
 
The temps are okay,

but one thing,

They are not a good relative reference. DUe to compression, only a select "range" of heatsinks/cpu speeds is effective "approximated" by the bios as near core temp.


Mike
 
My Tbird 750 ocd to 950 on Abit Kt7 is 25C at idle and 40C running cpu benchmarks and 48C while ripping a 550 MB wav file to MP3 (it took 8 minutes). This is using Motherboard Monitor, which is very close to what PC Health shows. This is with standard AMD fan that came with the cpu and in an Antec sx1030 case with 4 case fans (case temp is 20C).
 
Livan:
Download Motherboard Monitor. Its free and it shows temps of case, mobo and cpu along with core voltages and 3 sets of fan speeds and this works within Windows so you don't have to go into the bios to check temps.

Not sure what would be too high, but my guess would be 50C or below would be safe, although I think these cpu are rated for 70C. For normal applications, 50C would be plenty warm (its 122F). Ripping wave files takes cpu power, so if mine never got above 48C then I figure that's a safe temp.
 
Well, due to temp reading problems... 55C is usually the limit/edge between stability and usability on a kt7.

Yes, the cpu die is rated to 90-95C temp, but you aren't measuring that temp.


Mike
 
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