What is a safe temp?

[Roche]

Hi guys,
I just want to know what is a sage temp to overclock a 300A to 450 MHZ. I currently have a peltier cooler, a fan in the front of the case pulling air in, the power supply is sucking air out and a new fan placed directly under the CPU sucking hot air out also(that one made a 5 degree difference itself). I am currently running oc'ed (374)at 87 degrees. Opinions needed. Thanks!!

[Roy]

87 degrees F. is cool enough! These devices are safe at temps 'way beyond 100F. Your efforts will extend the life beyond the time you will have replaced it with a Pentium V!

Roy

[Roche]

Thanks Roy,

that was with both sides off the case but the top on. I have since put the sides on and taken the top off and the temp has risen to about 91. 450 still seems elusive. Any suggestions anyone????

[The Reaper]

I have a 300a retail. It came with a heatsink that looks like the Coolmaster one.The problem with mine is I can run for days at 450mhz with no problem, but with a certain game (AirWarrior 3) online (off line theirs no problem) the game will lock-up. So I took the thickgray matter between the cpu and heatsink and replaced it with some better thermal goo. Everything worked ok except the game online so I took the heatsink back off to find that only 2/3 of the cpu was in contact with the heatsink!!! On ferther review I noticed that the heatsink is warped. I have heard of this problem before, but I just can't find another heatsink to buy right now thats worth it. BTW at 450mhz the heatsink is barly warm at 2.05 volts. I hope this helps.

Steve

[JSky]

Steve,

Very interesting!!! I have the same setup and AW3 is my passion. I have a winmodem, which worked fine in my 166 system, but with this system, after I'm online for 1 - 5 mins the system will restart by itself. I had originally suffered lockups when online as soon as I opened the browser, but reloading the 56-flex drivers cured that. I had tried other modem drivers and another winmodem, but no luck. I can run at 450 for days, but try to go online I'm running Win98 and the only success I've had online was with a Sierra 28.8 ISA modem.