What is considered a "dangerous" temp for Athlon XP 1800?

[Vortex22]

What would you guys consider to be a dangerous temp for an Athlon XP 1800+?
Mine has been idling at about 123F and can get up to 135F in games. My comp has been acting very strange lately (weird reboots, lockups.. thread in tech support) and I was wondering if this could possibly be the problem.

 

[sparks]

According to AMD's own .data sheets, the maximum die temperature of an Athlon XP 1800 is 90C

 

[Mikewarrior2]

what motherboard are you using?

socket-a readings depend highly on what motherboard you are using, in addition to what your system temp is.


Mike

 

[PliotronX]

Dangerous as in damage, life of the chip, or system stability? For damage, like Sparks' link explains, won't occur until it reaches very high temps that your chip shouldn't ever reach if the heatsink is properly absorbing the heat. Life of the chip, I would say anything under 60ºC (140ºF) should give a long life (multiple years). 60ºC the same for stability, although some chips might be more sensitive to temps than others so it couldn't hurt to invest in a slightly beefier heatsink (my personal recommendation is the ThermalRight AX-7 which is going for around $25USD w/o fan). Hope this helps

 

[Vortex22]

The motherboard is an Abit KR7A-133, and I was asking for dangerous temps in terms of system stablility, since mine has been really messed up lately and I can't figure out what's wrong with it.

 

[scauffiel]

I get repeatable lockups at the 62 degree mark with my 1900XP. Up to the 60 degree mark it's stable; I just don't like it that high. Re-did the paste and heat sink and now it doesn't go over 54ish.

S.

 

[Leo V]

Just for the record, my AthlonXP 1700+ (not overclocked) ran perfectly fine near 80C (170F) in my experiments; as sparks pointed out, the max temperature is 90C. (This is using a copper/alum Alpha and ASGII.) I have never experienced Athlon instability due to plain high temperatures. When I did experience lockups, I found that my heatsink wasn't touching the CPU properly. The temps reported were actually pretty low, but I'm guessing the heatsink didn't absorb fluctuations in temperature quickly.

 

[Mavrick007]

Originally posted by: PliotronX
Dangerous as in damage, life of the chip, or system stability? For damage, like Sparks' link explains, won't occur until it reaches very high temps that your chip shouldn't ever reach if the heatsink is properly absorbing the heat. Life of the chip, I would say anything under 60ºC (140ºF) should give a long life (multiple years). 60ºC the same for stability, although some chips might be more sensitive to temps than others so it couldn't hurt to invest in a slightly beefier heatsink (my personal recommendation is the ThermalRight AX-7 which is going for around $25USD w/o fan). Hope this helps

I agree, anything below 60C should be fine, but I would start to wonder what was wrong if the temps go above that. Make sure that the hsf has good contact and heat paste is a good thing to use to lower temps. Make sure that your room is not baking and increase airflow in the case and it should give alot lower temps.

 

[Whitedog]

123-135F isn't nothing for a CPU to run at.

All the hype behind "Running your CPU at 40c" is a waste unless you're doing stuff like over-clocking.

With CPU prices so low now-a-days, hardly anyone overclocks anymore.

Just slap a generic HS/Fan on it and let it rock. You're going to toss it in the trash in a couple of years anyway.

Yea, I "WASTED" $50 on one of those copper HS setups a while back.. A Mistake I'll not repeat. I let them run at whatever now. It's made No difference.