Whats a comfy Comp temp?

[AuraEdge]

Whats the limit you shouldnt Exceed? What kinda temps are your comps at? ANy input is welcome.

[Roy]

Right now my room is about 85*F. With the case closed and a 50CFM fan, the mobo ambient is 98*F. At 300MHz the PII450 temp is 120*F. At 527MHz it's 132*F. These temps don't bother me. I hope this helps.

P.S. The mobo runs hotter with the case open. That 50CFM fan kicks!

EDIT ~ About 5 min after I posted the above, I was treated to the dreaded blue screen. Now I'm back up at 504. Temps are 102*F case and 132*F CPU. I guess the CPU just didn't like running that fast at that temp. I'll update this if it gives up again.

[This message has been edited by Roy (edited 07-12-99).]

[AuraEdge]

so sub 100 should be fine right?I get 36c (96f) with case closed (350@434)..2 case fans(them $5 ones), the retail P2 job, and one of those fans that fits ina PCI slot under the AGP. Room temp is also 85f. If i open the case on the mobo side and turn a 17" fan on it on low It drops to 31c. (anything higher blows my papers around =P). I kinda started freakin when it hit 36...its not getting any higher than that so i *believe* im safe.

[Sterling_Aug]

You mest not be using the processor very hard to maintain those LOW temps.

I run a program that pushes my processor to 100% load at all times. MY CPU thermal diode is reading 46C (116F) right now with a room temp in the low 70's. The m/b case temp with the case off and a 20" box fan turned on high right next to the computer is reading 32C (87F).

I have an Alpha heatsink mounted on my PII-450 running at 527 MHz @ 2.1 volts. I used thermal compound, dual 18cfm fans on the Alpha, a peltier fully insulated around the processor board.

Prior to adding the peltier, my CPU temps hit 68-69C. My next prject will be to add a second peltier and try to lower the CPU temp to around 20C, I then am hoping to hit 558 or 600 MHz (with full 100% load). I know I can run 558 MHz, cause it will run for 10 mins. before locking up now.

If I turn off the program that uses the 100% CPU load, leave the peltier running, and turn on "rain" cpu idle program, the CPU temp drops to 18C in about 5 mins.

[This message has been edited by Sterling_Aug (edited 07-12-99).]

[yaroa]

Wich "reporting" software are you guys using? Winbond Hardware Doctor, wich came with my Abit BM6 doesnt work.

[Roy]

I'm using MotherBoard Monitor on an Abit BX6-2.

[AuraEdge]

your right..I dont know how much this taxes my comp but after a 3 hours session of halflife (gotta love it) it was 32. I set CPUIdle to turn off when load gets over 25% for 5 seconds, and it did shut off so load was at least 75% i suspect..Im gunna start using SETI@Home just to see how hot my limit is..
Oh yeah..using MBM on Abit BH6

[kec95]

Ditto Roy MBM/BX6 2.0

If you can keep the case temp roughly 10-15F higher than room temp, your in good shape.

Kenny C

[This message has been edited by kec95 (edited 07-12-99).]

[mnx]

my room temp is 20.6C and my mboard temp is 27C... i don't really have a cpu temp meter but i have i have a little indoor/outdoor digital temp guage that says 33.6C when touched to my heatsink. I have a p2 350 oc 463 (2.0V) This is taken when my compuer has been running rc5 for days and days...

[AuraEdge]

Can you run SETI@Home while running other stuff? It wont slow down anything or choke up anything else right? It only usese unused cycles so I can play gmaes with it on? I like the interface (wayyyys better than RC5)
Just wonderin..
Cuz i wanna have 100% load for about 2 hours but dont really feel like staring at it