Temperature ??

SeantheMan

Just a quick question

What temperature should my cpu be at ??

I dont mean a fancy liquid cooled or liquid nitrogen covered PC at -20,

Just a normal PC, what temperature is average, and what temp will it go up to before it goes BOOOOOMMM !!!

bpmurray

I don't know, but mine runs at 50-55C, but I've had it up over 75C with no apparent side-effects.

Endurance Man

What cpu do you have?

BrokenArrows

Post your temperatures and computer spec and we can tell you if its ok.

MunsterCycling

Was just going to post the very same question, here are my stats for my laptop, is 75 degrees a bit on the hot side? Also my desktop makes an aweful racket, thought it was the case fan but then discovered it was the cpu fan, can I do anything about this? How? (See Stats for desktop below) Any advice/comments would be most helpful.

Thanks:D



Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1666 MHz (12.5 x 133) 2000+
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8372 ProSavageDDR KN266
System Memory 352 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Insyde (02/12/03)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR (32 MB)
3D Accelerator S3 ProSavageDDR (86c420)
Monitor Digital Flat Panel (1024x768)

Disk Drive IC25N030ATCS04-0 (30 GB, 4200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive MAT****A UJDA740 DVD/CDRW (DVD:8x, CD:24x/10x/24x DVD-ROM/CD-RW)

SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Sensor Type HDD

Temperatures
CPU 75 °C
IBM IC25N030ATCS04-0 54 °C

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Desktop Stats
OS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (15 x 133) 2400+
Motherboard FIC K7M-400 (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)
Chipset VIA VT8378 UniChrome KM400
Memory 480 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)
HD Maxtor 4R080L0 (80 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)


Sensor Properties
Sensor Type ITE IT8705F (ISA 290h)

Temperatures
Motherboard 34 C (93 F)
CPU 36 C (97 F)<-- This is pretty cool?
Aux 11 C (52 F)
Maxtor 4R080L0 31 C (88 F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 5114 RPM <-- Can this be slowed down without damaging the CPU?
Chassis 2637 RPM

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.65 V
+2.5 V 2.53 V
+3.3 V 3.57 V
+5 V 5.05 V
+12 V 11.52 V
+5 V Standby 5.08 V
VBAT Battery 3.22 V

MunsterCycling

^bump^

daywalker

With regards to the desktop the temps you are reporting are ok, on the laptop that seems to be a very high temp, where are you getting the temp reading from? BIOS? or Software in windows?, although mobile processors generally have a higher tolerance for running hot, due to having less fans and cooling capabilities.

You can get software to turn down the fans on your PC, just keep an eye on temps when making changes if they go too high adjust the fans higher, generally anything above 60c is too hot for desktops

Gurgle

SeantheMan wrote:

what temp will it go up to before it goes BOOOOOMMM !!!

it won't.
At higher temperatures, latch-up becomes more likely and the PC will crash. Power down, wait a minute and reboot and it will be fine.
Continuous running at over 85°C may significantly decrease the life of the chip. More likely you'll upgrade before it burns out anyway.

Its very very difficult to damage an IC with self-generated temperatures.
Turning up the voltage is another matter. If you run it at a higher voltage than its specced for you may burn it out much quicker.

MunsterCycling

Getting all the info from Everest 2.50, is there another way toget this info? BIOS?

Khannie

motherboard monitor is good for getting info. It all comes from the BIOS anyway.

MunsterCycling

Khannie thanks for the Motherboard Monitor suggestion, Everest is a bit of overkill just for checking the temps.;)

BopNiblets

My Athlon 64 3800+ rarely goes over 60 C with the stock cooler, playing CS or HL or FEAR or anything.

BrokenArrows

75 C is fairly hot for a laptop.

Id only be getting those kinda temps when i overclocked my laptop and playing games.

My CPU temp is around 45c-50c when just browsing the net.

Pentium 4 2.2ghz
Win 2k
GeForce 4 4200 64MB

Id check if your fans are working correctly on the laptop.

MunsterCycling

BrokenArrows wrote:

75 C is fairly hot for a laptop.

Id only be getting those kinda temps when i overclocked my laptop and playing games.

My CPU temp is around 45c-50c when just browsing the net.

Pentium 4 2.2ghz
Win 2k
GeForce 4 4200 64MB

Id check if your fans are working correctly on the laptop.

The fans spin up ok and when they do the temp comes down to around 61c-65c, can get the cpu temp down to 50c using an oscilating (sp?) fan under the case.:D

ShiverinEskimo

I've overclocked mine and it never goes above 50 degrees. I'm not happy if a CPU is running at over 50 degrees because ti normally means other components such as the mosfets (supply voltage to the CPU) are running 5-10 degrees hotter.

I've always been told 50 degrees should be your ceiling in order to avoid damage/reduced cpu life.

MunsterCycling

Suppose it could just be a mis-reported temp, although case does pretty hot!

SeantheMan

Ok, the Temperatures are

Cpu Temp 33c/91f
Theres also a sensor floating around inside the case,
Temperature of that 25c/75f

So lookin at people sayin up to 50c is ok, then im happy.

Thanks for the feedback I fell reassured now