''State Of The Art'' CPU Cooling (Circa Dec 2003)

[e_dawg]

Bone-lover, did you lapped it?

Does licking it repeatedly with my tongue count? Woof!

Seriously, no, I didn't lap my heatsinks (as usual).

 

[Jan Kivar]

Yes you are paranoid...

40C is just above human body temperature. I used to run mine more like 65C for over 18 months, painful to touch the heatsink but it never crashed or caused problems. The CPU (an XP1800 Palo) is running happily in a friends machine now.

With the depreciation of CPUs and prices of AMD CPUs, temperature is nothing worth worrying about as long as its below 75. Ask Prof. wizard who used to run his 1.2 T-bird at 80C during summer

If the computer crashes under heavy load often, with high temps, I'd be refining the CPU/case cooling. Or clean the dust accumulations...

AFAIK, both AMD and Intel use same HSF combos for their entire lines. If they say it's sufficient, then it is. It's completely different situation if You are not pleased with the noise levels though...

Cheers,

Jan

 

[Fushigi]

AMD CPUs are rated for 95C. I have no problem running them at anything up to 65C. The cooler the better, of course, but I'm not sweating the details if the CPU runs 65C or less; that's way below the thermal threshold.

 

[Explorer]

For my next cooling project, I want to use a squirrel cage fan -- POWERED BY A REAL SQUIRREL !

 

[Santilli]

Why not a beagle???

gs

 

[ddrueding]

AMD CPUs are rated for 95C. I have no problem running them at anything up to 65C. The cooler the better, of course, but I'm not sweating the details if the CPU runs 65C or less; that's way below the thermal threshold.

I've never even tried running a CPU that hot (intentionally). There were a few "fanless" situations where it was exceeded, but that was short-term. I might have to tone-down my fans even more just to see if they're still stable at my current voltage and clockspeed.

 

[Howell]

I ran my 1800s at 75F as standard and had no problems.

 

[NRG = mc²]

I wouldn't expect you to have problems at 75F... sure you don't mean C?

 

[Howell]

Err... whatever seems more likely. It was a MB diode reading.

 

[ddrueding]

Yeah, you mean C...It's been a while since I've got a CPU to operate @ 75F (486DX2-66MHz, cold to the touch while operating IIRC)