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**HAL9000** · 06-23-2001, 06:21 PM

Intel processors can take a LOT of abuse without frying. I forgot to plug in the fan on a Celeron 733Mhz at work and ran it in excess of 84'C for a week with no noticable harm to the CPU. I would have to look it up again, but I do believe that both Intel and AMD list critical temperatures at 90'C. 50'C and below is just a nice place to shoot for and leave plenty of margin so not to bake a CPU. The distributed client does a good job of working your CPU to the max, so you know you're within safe limits.

06-23-2001, 06:21 PM	#13
HAL9000 Red-eyed Moderator Staff Premium Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 17,575	Intel processors can take a LOT of abuse without frying. I forgot to plug in the fan on a Celeron 733Mhz at work and ran it in excess of 84'C for a week with no noticable harm to the CPU. I would have to look it up again, but I do believe that both Intel and AMD list critical temperatures at 90'C. 50'C and below is just a nice place to shoot for and leave plenty of margin so not to bake a CPU. The distributed client does a good job of working your CPU to the max, so you know you're within safe limits. __________________ -At Ford, quality is job #1, job #2 is making them explode. ~Norm MacDonald, SNL News -Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me... taking the glide path instead.