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On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 10:11, Export wrote:
Speaking of fans and cpus, temps. what's a good temperature for a cpu to run at generally? is there 'safe zone' for temperature?
It really depends on which processor and which revision on it you run. I have a Palomino AthlonXP 1800+ which runs between 45 centigrade and 55, depending on the room temperature, both under full load. My case is fairly normal in size for an ATX, but wasn't designed with these sort of temperatures in mind (there's about a centimetre open between the CPU-fan and the power supply), so on hot days I leave it open, as the temperature rises to bout 60 degrees. A friend of mine has the same cpu and board in a much smaller case, standing in a small poorly ventilated office. His door is open all day, so it doesn't get too hot, but when he arrives at work in the morning, the office is quite hot inside, and cpu temperature is about 70 degrees. It still runs stable though, so that should still be fine. The Thorougbred Athlons run much cooler in general though. I seldom see any of them reach 40 degrees, but I have to add that they are all in new properly ventialted cases with a lot of open space above and around the CPU. Hans