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What are good temps for a P4?

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Propofol

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What would you say a "good" temperature range is for a P4 being slightly overclocked. Just as a mild experiment I bumped my 1.6a up to 1.7 Ghz and my CPU temp is 120F with Seti@Home running.

What temperature should I never exceed? I do not have any advanced cooling in my case, so I'm most likely not going to overclock, I was just curious to know the best temp range.

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My CPU Temp goes up to 60C with prime95...no one can seem to say what is the safest operating temperature...I think Intel statest 70C.
 
I have pretty heavy airflow in my case(4 80mm 55CFM fans) and at 2.5Ghz I idle at 28C and max out at 41~42C (stock HSF) running Prime95. I personaly won't accept anything above 50C. Heat is the enemy🙂
 
I get 2-3C over system temp at idle. (typically 25C). 28C surfing and running MP3's right now. And I max out at 35C running Prime95 and 2C over that with CPUBurn 4. Running a 1.6A @ 2.37ghz

But I run a watercooler..........😀

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Maybe some useful info though.............🙂
My friends with 1 80mm intake and 1-80mm exhaust and Antec 400 powersupply (which doesn't seem to push much air) runs at 46C full load with stock cooler at 2.13ghz with stock vcore. If we push the vcore the temp goes up really fast and while it runs Prime95 fine at 2.2ghz, it just feels a little sluggish and the temps are rolling into the 50-52C range. I don't think anything above that is good for these processors, but am only basing this on a few things I have read and from working on his. He is going to get a better heatsink fan and push a little more air into his case later, but is very happy at 2.13ghz with 4:5 memory timing. (Has the P4S333 mobo)
 
I think it all depends on the motherboard your using. My MSI 845 reports temps under full load ~60c. I think thats entirely to high, but the computer wont hang till i push the fsb up a few more points to get 2.45ghz. Event then it will post and run till i run prime95 for a few hours.
 
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