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"suitable temperature??"

I currently have an Athlon XP 1700+ which seems to have a maximum temperature of 46 degrees with my current cooling solution and with 2 case fans I have a system temp. of around 24 degrees, or 27 is the most i've ever recorded.

I want to overclock my processor and was wondering what the highest safe temperature would be.

I will probably have it at somewhere around 1600 to 1670MHz

I currently have an Athlon XP 1700+ which seems to have a maximum temperature of 46 degrees with my current cooling solution and with 2 case fans I have a system temp. of around 24 degrees, or 27 is the most i've ever recorded.

I want to overclock my processor and was wondering what the highest safe temperature would be.

I will probably have it at somewhere around 1600 to 1670MHz

Try not to go over 60 degrees under load, you may need better cooling though try a 120mm fan in the top of your case, makes a lot of differance.

c.b.

i was thinking of doing it now at 133 bus with 11.5 multipier hence

1529.5MHz

which is less than 70MHz faster than normal speed, should my current cooling do fine for this, until i get another fan and clock it higher

i forgot to mention, my usual temp. is somewhere around 40/41 i have only ever reached 46 once when i was doing a day-long processing job

oh and as well i have no thermal paste on my heatsink would the temp. lower significantly if i got some

well 40o is average but yours seems to be running very low wich is good, but is you upgrade it the highest tem i would reccomend it 60o at the max. but make sure you have automatic shutdown turned on at about 70o.
and yes heat sink gel would make it run at an even lower tem.

Memorandum wrote:
> oh and as well i have no thermal paste on my heatsink would the temp.
> lower significantly if i got some

I haven't noticed my temps do down much after application, but anyway.

The thing about temps is what you define as safe. Theoretically, if an off-die thermistor is reading 70c you should be killing the power pronto. However, I'm overclocking my XP2000 to 1.83ghz (.166 stock) and I usually get worried around the 55c mark. Also, you'll rarely get to temps of 70-75 or so before your system starts going haywire.

If you load at 40c then your cooling sounds OK. What are you using?

well mine does run a bit hot, i use HTC (heat transfer compound) y? what do u use??

I use Artic Silver II. My heatsink is a Thermalright AX-7 and a 120mm fan. It's about as beastly as sane aircooling gets, heh.

I use arctic silver paste as well and found on my old athlon system temps droped about 2 degrees then i lapped my HSF and they dropeed another 3 degrees, you could also do a little fan conversion on your HSF like turbonutter has done, that is prett affective.

c.b.
OR go water cooling :)