Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 07:36:00 09/08/01
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On September 08, 2001 at 09:45:35, Torstein Hall wrote: >On September 07, 2001 at 14:19:16, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On September 07, 2001 at 09:19:32, Torstein Hall wrote: >> >>>On September 06, 2001 at 23:31:23, Aaron Gordon wrote: >>> >>>>On September 06, 2001 at 19:02:10, Torstein Hall wrote: >>>> >>>>>I just worked all evening assembling my new PC, a 1,4Ghz Athlon system. >>>>> >>>>>At the moment I'm getting a Fritz mark of 976 with 64MB Ram. Is this normal? >>>>>What are others getting? >>>>> >>>>>Torstein >>>> >>>>AMD Thunderbird 1GHz at 1.61GHz here running WinXP. >>>>1034 Fritzmarks, 1512Knps. >>> >>>At what temp are your Thunderbird running? How high do you consider it to safe >>>to run it? >>> >>>Torstein >> >>Well, I can do 1.76Ghz but I hold off at 1.61 due to fear of the copper tracks >>on the motherboard itself not being able to handle the cpu's wattage. Under full >>load it runs about 32 degree's celsius with liquid cooling. The cpu is 126 watts >>(Tbird 1GHz is 54 watts). > >MBM tells me that my CPU is running at about 50C at the moment. I have seen it >up to 57C. Is my CPU in danger? > >Torstein Not in any immediate danger.. but with all cpu's (that I'm aware anyway) over time electromigration will kill the cpu. Heat accelerates this. It does take years to occur however even if the cpu is running quite hot. If it's extremely hot (60C or more) then I'd imagine it wouldn't take but a year or two before the cpu dies. I don't have the URL or the formula anymore but an intel engineer once said that for every 10 degree's celsius you drop your chip it doubles it's lifespan. If you don't plan on having that cpu for more than 3 years then I wouldn't worry about getting a better heatsink/fan. I'm pretty poor so I try and keep my chips as cool as possible because I can't just run out and get another if one dies. :P
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