What's the highest temperature an Athlon 1.2ghz CPU can tolerate?

[Embryo]

Does anyone know? Mine's currently at 58 Celsius

 

[Biggs]

I think AMD listed it at about 95C.

 

[MichaelD]

The max temp for your CPU is 95C. At that temp, you will get a third degree burn from touching it. However, the CPU would probably produce a lot of erratic behavior or burn up before you reached 95C.

You said your temp is 58C. Is that at idle, I.E. no programs open, only desktop and whatever monitoring program your using, or under stress I.E. right after gaming or while running Prime95 or 3DMark? This is important. If 58C is your idle temp, then that's too high. If it's your temp under stress, then I'd say it's a little high, but not much. What kind of HSF do you have? I dropped both the idle and stress temps by 4C on my 1Gig TBird just by getting "a real HSF" and using Arctic Silver...makes a real difference. More info please.

 

[Viper GTS]

Check Here

I believe it's up around 90ºC.

[EDIT]According to page 12, it's 90ºC for up to 1100, above 1100 it's 95ºC.

You're fine.[/EDIT]

Viper GTS

 

[Embryo]

The computer is working fine... but I haven't played games like Quake3 yet. The temperature reaches ~53C right after I turn the computer on, then after some time using it (working with Photoshop for instance) the temperature reaches 57C. The strange thing is, last week it was around 45-47C.

I'm using the GlobalWin HSF.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Its 95C die temp,b ut as temps go up, socket-thermistors don't get close to reading the "higher' temps, so anything over 65C on most motherboards leads to instability.


MIke

 

[Howard]

Hmm. You say last week was 45-47 degrees? Maybe the thermal compound between the heatsink and the chip has dried out. Clean off and reapply.

 

[DARRIN]

Mine is running at 59C underload with no problems.

 

[ZeroBurn]

mine runs at 59-60 idle and 63 max load, i think it hit 64 once when it was a really hot day i've got a pal6035 on it but also have a quiet ADDA fan on it and some artic silver 2. it's an asus a7v133 (1004) with mbm5, however i have an external thermistor i haven't had the time to hook up to it yet so i can't say how accurate it is.