temperature?compared to what?

[alondra]

got to thinking , body temp 98.6, room temp. 70 +- put one hand on the other neither warm or cold, both same temp, touch any thing in room, table, your not on comp. feels cool, these are at room temp. 70+-, so your CPU static is already at 70. turn on comp touch CPU when it neither feel cool or warm it is at 98.6 . if it feels warm. say only a 10 degrees raise, it will be at 108. and a raise from room temp of 38 degrees, so just what is a harm full raise from room temp. does this make sense?

[DanU]

Actually your hands are considerably cooler than 98.6F degrees. 98.6F is the core body temperature. But as blood is pumped from your heart to your hands, it loses a lot of heat. Your hands may only be at about 70-80F. Because of this variability, human touch makes for a very poor thermometer.

The same heat loss true for the heatsink. The fins of the heatsink may be at about 110F, but the actual CPU die is several degrees higher.

As long as the CPU die stays below the manufacturer spec, you'll be OK. AMD specs the CPU die to work at up to 90C. Remember that this is the die temperature, not the heatsink temperature or the temperature of the bottom of the chip where the thermistor is located.

[Barney]

Interesting question. What harm does turning a monitor or light bulb on/off do? I dunno how much, but I'm sure it isn't enough to leave them on. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

If you're sitting on a chair where one half is 90 degrees Celsius and the other half -60 degrees Celsius, you're sitting quite comfortable on average http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif . Hasn't really got anything to do with the topic (it's about statistics), but it's funny nevertheless. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[alondra]

90C wow, thats 194F darn near boiling. never realized they could take that much heat.