How hot before I need to back off

newton · 07-31-2006, 10:40 AM

Just built a fresh rig. AMD Athlon 64 3000+. It's running at 33C on stock cooling, and I think that's actually pretty cool. I'm planning on experimenting with overclocking, but I want to know how hot it will get before I need to back off on OCing. Say, 40, 45 degrees?

Snake-Eyes · 07-31-2006, 10:45 AM

Truthfully, the temp should be somewhere under where the chip starts to essentially melt. Personally, 50-60C is the absolute max.

newton · 07-31-2006, 10:50 AM

But I meant how hot before it gets unstable? I'm not willing to push a brand new CPU to 50C.

reggie_da_man · 07-31-2006, 10:56 AM

Anything at or under 50*C during full load is fine. I had my 3000 at 2.65GHz for like 8 months, and it never went above 45*C. That chip will overclock quite nicely. Don't worry about pushing it to 50*C. The max reccomended temp is 65*C so it's all good.

Snake-Eyes · 07-31-2006, 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by newton
But I meant how hot before it gets unstable?

Really, that more or less depends on your mobo. In the BIOS, it'll have a warning beep/alarm @X temperature setting, and a shutdown @X temperature setting.

jonny_uk · 07-31-2006, 02:50 PM

mines 40-42 when im just doing little tasks like msn, surfing, listening to music etc

reggie_da_man · 07-31-2006, 03:58 PM

Yeah but you have a dual-core CPU. Big difference.

lancec2c30 · 07-31-2006, 04:39 PM

hey reggie did you OC that one with stock cooling? how far have you gotten you dual core??

reggie_da_man · 08-01-2006, 10:56 AM

I was able to get up there on stock cooling on my Athlon 3000+ but I bought liquid cooling a bit later. Now with my dual-core so far I'm at 2.945GHz prime stable. Here's the link: bought 1gb of ram for laptop

EDIT: Keep in mind my Athlon was stable at almost 3GHz on stock cooling (this was the only screenshot I could find, I'll look around for some more).

07-31-2006, 10:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
newton Junior Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 50	How hot before I need to back off Just built a fresh rig. AMD Athlon 64 3000+. It's running at 33C on stock cooling, and I think that's actually pretty cool. I'm planning on experimenting with overclocking, but I want to know how hot it will get before I need to back off on OCing. Say, 40, 45 degrees?

07-31-2006, 10:45 AM	#2 (permalink)
Snake-Eyes Monster Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,148	Truthfully, the temp should be somewhere under where the chip starts to essentially melt. Personally, 50-60C is the absolute max. __________________

07-31-2006, 10:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
reggie_da_man Master Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,568	Anything at or under 50C during full load is fine. I had my 3000 at 2.65GHz for like 8 months, and it never went above 45C. That chip will overclock quite nicely. Don't worry about pushing it to 50C. The max reccomended temp is 65C so it's all good. __________________

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reggie_da_man Master Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,568	Yeah but you have a dual-core CPU. Big difference. __________________

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07-31-2006, 10:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
newton Junior Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 50	But I meant how hot before it gets unstable? I'm not willing to push a brand new CPU to 50C.

07-31-2006, 02:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
jonny_uk Master Techie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: uk Posts: 2,356	mines 40-42 when im just doing little tasks like msn, surfing, listening to music etc

08-01-2006, 10:56 AM	#9 (permalink)
reggie_da_man Master Techie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,568	I was able to get up there on stock cooling on my Athlon 3000+ but I bought liquid cooling a bit later. Now with my dual-core so far I'm at 2.945GHz prime stable. Here's the link: bought 1gb of ram for laptop EDIT: Keep in mind my Athlon was stable at almost 3GHz on stock cooling (this was the only screenshot I could find, I'll look around for some more). __________________

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