On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 13:43, Anton wrote: > There are a couple of different temperature measures but I > can't seem to figure out what they are really doing, as one looks like > it should be cutting out at 72deg, but is fine at 75, and when set to 75 > also seems to cut out at 72. I do, of course, have to reboot, but i > expect the temp usually doesn't drop too much in the 25 secs it takes to > reboot into the bios. There is another temperature gauge in the bios > which has (ASCII) after it, and this is set a little higher. What is a > maximum that a chip should ever get to (on any gauge)?
Thats sodding hot for a CPU. My Celeron 1.0 acts odd if temperatures exceed 50-55 degrees C. This web page describes how to read the AMD identifier for maximum CPU temperatures http://www.amdboard.com/amdid.html Could it be the CPU has no thermal grease between the CPU and heatsink? http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/CPU/CPU%20Temperatures.shtml Another Maximum Temperature table.... basically any temperature over 60 degrees is getting into the dangerous zone. google is full of usefull stuff...
