Ziggy
March 21st, 2003, 06:05 AM
What's the MAXIMUM temperature you would trust your chip at under full load? how about idle???
mine idles at ~47.5C
and under a very stressing load (Sim City 4 Terrain Loading) it peaks at ~63C
this is at 2.4Ghz/533mhz, the chips default speed...
At 2.8Ghz it was
Idle: ~48C
Stressed: ~70C!!!!!
its completely stable still at 2.8Ghz, but i dont know if i trust those kinds of temps...
its on the Stock Intel HS/FAN, with the Intel Thermal Tape/Grease applied...
my Arctic Silver 3 is on the way....this is just for now....
anywho, what are you guys temps like???
ohyeahar
March 21st, 2003, 09:10 AM
idle at 35...max out at 50...stock hs/fan is replaced with zalman hs/fan...
Intel_Peep
March 21st, 2003, 06:52 PM
Originally posted by Ziggy
What's the MAXIMUM temperature you would trust your chip at under full load? how about idle???
mine idles at ~47.5C
and under a very stressing load (Sim City 4 Terrain Loading) it peaks at ~63C
this is at 2.4Ghz/533mhz, the chips default speed...
At 2.8Ghz it was
Idle: ~48C
Stressed: ~70C!!!!!
its completely stable still at 2.8Ghz, but i dont know if i trust those kinds of temps...
its on the Stock Intel HS/FAN, with the Intel Thermal Tape/Grease applied...
my Arctic Silver 3 is on the way....this is just for now....
anywho, what are you guys temps like???
Theoretically, if you look at temps, the Northwood is spec'ed to operate at a case temperature of 70C max, which you are surely below (the number you are reporting is the die temperature which will be higher than the case temperature, though how much will be determined by the thermal resistance of your heat solution and the processor's). If you are overclocking, and using higher voltage to do so, then you are probably hurting it more by the higher voltage than the higher temperature (though the two are not independent).
If I were you I would not worry about the normal operating temperatures, for the overclocked scenario you may want to look into a better heat sink, more case fans, or allow more room around the case for the air to circulate more freely. No matter what your temps, the lower the better, the only question is what investment you have to make to improve it, and how much better will it actually be. If you are using the thermal tape and the thermal grease, you may want to pull off the tape and go with only the grease, it will give you better heat conduction.
Hope this helps, Intel_Peep