Tolerable Temp. Range for AMD T-Brid 800Mhz

[Michael]

Someone asked this question of me and I am not sure exactly of the answer. Can someone help.

"I have a AMD Athlon Thunderbird 800Mhz, running in a Socket A Soltek SL-75KV+ motherboard, and i was wondering what the maximum temperature that the AMD Athlon CPU can reach upto? Because onboard temperature to me seems a little high, as it usually reaches 75°Celcius or 167°Fahrenheit."

 

[JOJO]

whoa...that's really high.....
my t-bird 800 is at 34 C idle (whole bunch o cooling though)
most people are high 30's to high 40's idle
i'd shut down and get a new heat sink

 

[AmdMELTDOWN]

you are on meltdown stage 1

get a new cpu! 🙂

 

[Guest]

Mine runs at 59 when I play CS.... and idles at 51.

 

[Grizely1]

My 750 @ 1050 is at 25. (im serious)

 

[Guest]

Wow, 75 degrees is a LOT!
I have a T800 and i overclocked it to 1GHz with succes (100 * 10). I have a coolermaster copper cooler. It reaches 48 degrees maximum under very heavy load.
If i set the FSB to 105 MHz on my abit KT7RAID motherboard, then the temperature goes up to 51 and rising, but it was doing a nice 1050MHz and my memory was ultra fast too! But i stopped there. I just got this PC for one week and i want to keep it for a while..

The thing is, that the temp sensor on your motherboard is under the CPU, in my case, there is a warrianty seal stuck under the CPU, so the temperature i am reading might be several degrees lower than it actually is!!
Also, something very important, when i removed the blue/green-ish stuff that was on the cooler when i bought it (which is supposed to be some thermal conducting stuff), and i replaced it with thermal paste (never use too much of this) the temperature propped several degrees!
I think you need a new or better cooler and perhaps some case cooling. Take in cold air at the bottom and blow out hot air at the top.
And, is this temperature you are measuring ok? perhaps the sensor is not ok? since you are not overclocking, it shouldn't get so damn hot! Perhaps you can try, very carefully, to touch the cooler sink, if you can touch it, it is ok, if you burn your fingers, it is not ok! 😉

 

[Bubba]

Duron 600 @ 850 53C