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i have an AMD athlon 2000+ cpu, and ive read its critical
temperature is 90 degrees C

however, it is currently operating at 96 degrees C. I
have had no warning yet, or shut downs, is this dangerous?

please help before i accidentally kill it, is it ok?
 
That seems very hot, is the heat sink properly installed and
is the fan running?

|i have an AMD athlon 2000+ cpu, and ive read its critical
| temperature is 90 degrees C
|
| however, it is currently operating at 96 degrees C. I
| have had no warning yet, or shut downs, is this dangerous?
|
| please help before i accidentally kill it, is it ok?
 
Intel P4 C, caution- temp is 50-55,max is 70-72 operates at 30
F temps: operates at 86 caution @ 130 max @ about 165
At 90 C youd have maxed out a P4,if you have doubts of temp.,replace
the fan,clean out the heat sink.Also make sure youre getting correct
readings,you can purchase temp gauge strips (used in photography i believe),
place a small section of the thin strip under the processor,thier suppose
to work really well,and they cost only a few dollars.
 
me said:
i have an AMD athlon 2000+ cpu, and ive read its critical
temperature is 90 degrees C

however, it is currently operating at 96 degrees C. I
have had no warning yet, or shut downs, is this dangerous?
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that doesn't seem possible, as the critical core temperature for the AMD
2000 CPU is 85C, the processor would either shutdown or burnup. i suspect
that either the temperature sensor or the utility you're using is not
calibrated properly
please help before i accidentally kill it, is it ok?
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well it's not as technical as it may seem, just put your hand on the heat
sink, it should be very warm, perhaps uncomfortably so, but not to the point
of burning your hand. if the heatsink is too hot to touch or cold, then
there is a problem. if very hot, then the fan is not doing a good job of
dissipating heat. if cold, that means there is not good thermal contact b/w
the heatsink and cpu, and that should be fixed immediately, and that may
account for the cpu's high internal core temperature, but as i said, it's
been designed to shutdown at about 85C.

from what you've given us, i'd say either the sensor or the reporting
utility is miscalibrated, but you should investigate further anyway
 
Francis is totally right. There is no way your CPU is running that hot.
Are you sure it isn't 95 F? My processor right now is running at 79F
or 26C. Double check and make sure you see the right temp. Also, it is
possible that the sensor is reporting the wrong temperature or the
software/BIOS are not reading the sensor correctly.
 
Andrew said:
Intel P4 C, caution- temp is 50-55,max is 70-72 operates at 30
F
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30°F eh? -1°C?! WOW! You must have a freon cooled system or something! Do
learn the difference between °F and °C. You're telling me that a P4s max
temperature is 72°F? That's roughly 22°C. 55°F is 13°C. So, according to
Andrew the Eejit the P4 has a temperature range of between 13 and 22°C.


temps: operates at 86 caution @ 130 max @ about 165


Huh?!?
At 90 C youd have maxed out a P4,
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No, at 90°C you'd have *KILLED* a P4.

if you have doubts of temp.,replace
the fan,clean out the heat sink.Also make sure youre getting correct
readings,you can purchase temp gauge strips (used in photography i
believe), place a small section of the thin strip under the
processor,thier suppose to work really well,and they cost only a few
dollars.
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And are completely useless for the purpose you describe.
 
Nathan McNulty said:
Francis is totally right. There is no way your CPU is running that hot.
Are you sure it isn't 95 F? My processor right now is running at 79F or
26C. Double check and make sure you see the right temp. Also, it is
possible that the sensor is reporting the wrong temperature or the
software/BIOS are not reading the sensor correctly.
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minor correction though, i said that the CPU is designed to shutdown at
about 85C, which is obviously wrong, the CPU would be hot enough to fry an
egg on by that point, and smoke would be pouring out of its ears. i think
the actual shutdown temperature is somewhere around 50+ degrees C, but
perhaps someone else can confirm that for us.
 
Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
30°F eh? -1°C?! WOW! You must have a freon cooled system or something! Do
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operating temperature refers to the ambient temperature of the environment
in which the cpu is operating... not the core temperature of the cpu itself,
which in most cases will be significantly higher than ambient temperature of
the machine's enclosure.
learn the difference between °F and °C. You're telling me that a P4s max
temperature is 72°F? That's roughly 22°C. 55°F is 13°C. So, according to
Andrew the Eejit the P4 has a temperature range of between 13 and 22°C.
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you silly amerikans still using those darn imperial units down there? tsk
tsk ;->
 
Yes, that is much too hot. I have an AMD 2200+ and it runs at about 42
degrees Celsius, 46 degrees full load.
I would suspect that your heat sink and fan are not functioning properly or
are not attached properly. Also, you probably do not have cool n' quiet
enabled.
You are at best shortening the life of your processor by running it so hot,
and at worst damaging it every time you turn it on.

You should take it immediately to a tech shop and have it checked.

Bobby
 
me said:
i have an AMD athlon 2000+ cpu, and ive read its critical
temperature is 90 degrees C

however, it is currently operating at 96 degrees C. I
have had no warning yet, or shut downs, is this dangerous?

please help before i accidentally kill it, is it ok?
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90°C is the maximum die temperature. In practice it is best not to exceed
60°C.
What utility are you using to monitor temperatures ? The BIOS or a Windows
utility ?

At any rate, your processor would be dead dead dead if it actually hit 90°C
or 194°F.


Download and install MBM 5.3.7.0 from here:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Use the "Motherboard List" link on the left side to configure MBM to your
specific motherboard.
 
A Prescott will shut down at 95°C, a Northwood CPU will shut down much
earlier. I've NEVER seen an AthlonXP run that hot.
 
Cari (MS MVP) said:
A Prescott will shut down at 95°C, a Northwood CPU will shut down much
earlier. I've NEVER seen an AthlonXP run that hot.
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95°C = 203°F (a few degrees below the boiling point of H²O)

that seems incredibly hot, are you sure about that?

a Prescott CPU running at full load usually doesn't get any hotter than 60°C
(140°F), i think it would shutdown long before it reached 95°C
 
To further that, Intel has made their processors capable of lowering the
clock speeds until the heat has gone down. The processor will continue
to slow down until the heat is taken care of. If the heat isn't, the
processor will eventually shut down. I believe the Northwoods are
around 80-85C for this if I remember right when I was looking at info on
my processor.

Athlon's do not have this technology, but I believe they do have thermal
shutdown capabilities meaning when the temperature reaches a certain
temperature, the processor will turn off. This may have been a feature
of my ASUS A7V8X or the processor or both. Just don't remember.
 
Nathan;

The portion of you answer concerning Athlons is not completely accurate.
The new Athlon64 processors can throttle down not only CPU voltage but also
CPU frequency, using an application called "Cool 'n Quiet". It really does
work more efficiently than the P4's 4 step voltage array. Cool n' Quiet
works in the background and dynamically updates itself depending upon system
requirements. For instance, I have a 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64, and at idle it's
frequency drops to 1 GHz; It's voltage will drop down to 1.07 volts at idle
without affecting system performance. This not only improves cooling, but
also makes it quieter because the system fans do not have to run full speed
(or at all) to keep the proc cool.

Bobby
 
See I have only owned an Athlon XP (2100+) and forget about the 64bit
processors. Thanks for the follow up on that.
 
Nathan McNulty said:
http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/guides/30056401.pdf

According to the whitepapers, the maximum temperature is 85C, but this is
the max temperature it can run at for 15 minutes. Either way, this is
exremely high, but I bet for a few seconds it can go higher than 85C (but
not much).
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and definitely not an extra 10°C above max, a fully-stressed Prescott
running for more than 15mins will top-out at just over 75°C, i very much
doubt that it would survive a 20° increase to 95°C, the internal regulator
circuitry would slow-down the clock frequency and/or reduce the voltage to
prevent permanent damage
 

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