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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 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
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As much airflow as you can get is good. I doubled my airflow from 45cfm and my temps stoned 10-15 degrees.
PS. Rated heatsinks will work with the rated CPU, but "work" can mean anything from 30c to 70c, heh.
PS. Rated heatsinks will work with the rated CPU, but "work" can mean anything from 30c to 70c, heh.
I am thinking of trying to attach another fan to the side of my heatsink, will this help much??
I am using a coolermaster DP5-6J31C-A1 which is rated up to XP 2100 according to AMD.com
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 :)
c.b.
OR go water cooling :)
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.
well mine does run a bit hot, i use HTC (heat transfer compound) y? what do u use??
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> 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?
> 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 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.
and yes heat sink gel would make it run at an even lower tem.
oh and as well i have no thermal paste on my heatsink would the temp. lower significantly if i got some
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
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