Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 22:17:22 01/23/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 01:04:17, Brian Katz wrote: <snip> >My main concern is that I do not want to over tax my processor. > >If anyone has some insight on this It would be greatly appreciated. Addressing the issue of overtaxing your processor, no. Whether you have one of the original Athlon 550 MHz chips or the latest Athlon 2700, it is not possible to overheat the chip unless you set out to do so. Any prebuilt machine -should- be equipped with proper heatsink & fan combo to prevent the chip from overheating. If you built it yourself, the stock heatsink & fan will perform acceptably well, and so long as you have followed AMD's guidelines (e.g. use of copper heatsink), you will be fine. Please note that your processor is spec'd to operate at -up to- 90 C. That's pretty hot. Obviously you don't really want to run it that warm, but the 50 C that most systems I've seen run at is perfectly fine (and normal). A friend of mine runs his at 65 C due to poor ventilation, and I work with a guy that has two running above 70 C. If you are still worried, just reboot and enter your BIOS. There should be a "PC Health" or "PC Monitor" option of some sort that gives you live thermal data. Wait a minute or two, then read the value. It will be a fairly accurate indicator as to the maximum temperature of your CPU. (Ambient temperature as well as other things may drive it a few C higher, but not very much.) -Matt
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