what's the max safe temp of a wolfdale?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

i just hit 59C (load) on my e7200 @ 3175MHz (stock 1.136V) on stock cooling and ambient temps of 80F.

What's the safest max temp for these chips?

 

[BlueWeasel]

You're fine at 60C. I'd work on cooling if the temp exceeds 70C, even though the chip can handle more.

 

[faxon]

yea the chip will be fine untill 70c. anything after that will start decreasing the life of the chip, and if you have a super hot day your system could overheat. what cooler are you using?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: faxon
yea the chip will be fine untill 70c. anything after that will start decreasing the life of the chip, and if you have a super hot day your system could overheat. what cooler are you using?

retail chip so stock hsf.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
i just hit 59C (load) on my e7200 @ 3175MHz (stock 1.136V) on stock cooling and ambient temps of 80F.

What's the safest max temp for these chips?

Do you mean the tCASE temperature? Or the core temperatures? Sometimes, people compute a sort of average core temperature in their heads, and report a single value in these threads.

I'm not yet familiar with how tCASE should vary from the cores on the Penryns, but it will be lower. On the Conroe C2D's, I think it was supposed to be around 10C lower than the core average. On the Kentsfields, it seems to be between 14 and 18C lower.

The thermal limit spec for these processors -- Penryn and Conroe -- references the tCASE temperature. If your 59C is really an average of the cores, you're more than fine. If it is tCASE . . . . it's OK.

 

[faxon]

yea if you are using the stock cooler to overclock you are going to get higher temps. if you want to keep your chip within tolerance on the stock cooler i wouldnt push it much higher than it is now. one hot day is all it takes. should be fine where it is now though so long as the fan on it doesnt die lol

 

[VirtualLarry]

I vote that the max safe temp is around 100C. That's when the chip thermal-throttles to save itself. Anything up to that is fair game in my book. (evil grin)

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I vote that the max safe temp is around 100C. That's when the chip thermal-throttles to save itself. Anything up to that is fair game in my book. (evil grin)

Actually that is the correct answer. The chips are manufactured to survive their entire lifetime operating at temps up to the TJmax and at voltages up to the max VID.

That is, after all, preciselly why TJmax is set to the value it is and why it serves the purpose it does.