What temps for an E8400?

[Magusigne]

This topic has been beaten like a dead horse but I haven't found any clear cut answer to this specific question.

I have been doing a little overclocking with my E8400 on my P5K and I'm not sure what temperatures are fine without begining to shave some life off my processor. @3.6ghz im running at 42-44 under orthos. When does it even begin to get a little too hot for the processor?

My setup is a Antec P180 1.1 w/ a 120mm intake fan in the upper HD bay and a Tuniq 120.

 

[MarcVenice]

When it begins to get a little to hot ? I'd say 65c or higher, but this is based on the old c2d's, I actually don't have any clear cut proof for this when it comes to the 45nm c2d's. I'm pretty sure you've got plenty of overclocking headroom left though, many people can do 4.0ghz easily with your kind of setup.

 

[Magusigne]

So you would say a good ceiling for continous useage for a 65nm proccessor would be 65C and you would not want to really go any higher since that is probably the lower end of its threshold? You would be comfortable with 65C?

Also would you hypothesize that the 45nm would be more or less heat tolerant than its 65nm predecessor?

 

[MarcVenice]

Tbh, this is pure speculation, but I'd say equally tolerant to some extent. When we look at older chips, like 90nm amd X2's, they could easily take 60-65c. Smaller produced 65nm C2D's could do the same, but there's plenty of people running B3 q6600's at 70c + withouth a problem. So yes, 65c would probably the lower end of it's treshold. I'd also say that you can quite easily do the max OC on stock vcore without a problem, heatwise.

 

[Riverhound777]

Well my core temps are all effed up and read close to 70C, but I go by my CPU temp which hits the low 50s at 4050Mhz. So I would say you are fine.