How hot is hot! for a cpu?

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Fri Jul 27 00:37:52 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 08:59 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> How hot does the cpu have to get before one should be worried?
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typically stress testing is at 90C.  I wouldn't recommend running one
that hot for very long, though.  Probably about 60C or 120F would be OK,
much above that you will begin to see faults over time I would expect.

regards,
Les H




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