PIII temperature range

[darryl]

Greetings,
I have a P3 1GHz processor in an Abit BX133
motherboard. I recently put it in a new case. I
was monitoring the temperature and wondered
what an acceptable temperature range was for the
PIII when its operating ? I observed in the bios that
it was running at about 60 degrees C. Is that OK ?

thanks,
Darryl

PS: An yes I know cooler is better, but want to know if I'm safe until I
get a cooling aid.

 

[DaveW]

70C is considered the upper limit for not damaging the CPU. And is your 60C
at idle or under heavy load like 3D games?

 

[darryl]

This temp was mesured after the machine was sitting
at the windows login screen most of the day. I reboot
into the bios and looked at the temps. The 59-60
was from the CPU temp info.