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Hi,
I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David |
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I think you have your monitoring program set incorrectly. Though with an
operating system like Windows 2000 or newer, the CPU temperature is likely to be lower than the system temperature when idle, this is NOT the case when the CPU is under heavy load. If you have good CPU cooling, 46 degrees C is not an unreasonable CPU temperature while running SETI (SETI, even though the CPU usage shows 99%, does not use as much power as programs written especially to max out heat generation.) A temperature of 42 degrees C is a bit high for a system temperature (actually the temperature at a spot on the motherboard), better air circulation within the case might bring that down, but if ambient room air is blown directly into the fan of the CPU heatsink (and the CPU heatsink fan blow into the heatsink), the motherboard temperature has little effect on the CPU temperature. At any rate, your overclock is VERY mild, and since you don't mention increasing the CPU core voltage, I doubt the CPU heat production is up more than (140-133)/133 = 5 %. Really, extra cooling for overclocking is for stability, not safety, when using Intel CPU's since the Pentium 60/66. Your system will show instability long before the CPU temperature exceeds specifications for very long, and the Pentium 4 will automatically shut down long before damage from heat occurs. Raising the core voltage is a different matter. If you raise the CPU core voltage by an unreasonable amount, it will kill the CPU. Raising the CPU core voltage by a reasonable amount will generate more heat, but that will won't damage the CPU, though additional CPU cooling may be necessary. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "David Hansen" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:48:18 +0000, David Hansen wrote:
Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David I would advise keeping your core temperature below 60 Celcius. it can go higher, but 60 is a nice bench mark. Mine runs constantly 38 - 47 Degrees Celcius. Ambiant is arond 35 - 45 degrees celcius. I am using a liquid cooler however. Hope this helps =P -- phrag http://gan.gs/box Linux-2.4.24 Slackware-9.1-current |
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Yep, that just the kind of thing I was looking for. I can try to push it a
little more before buying a new cooling system, Thanks for your help. Dave "phrag" wrote in message news On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:48:18 +0000, David Hansen wrote: Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David I would advise keeping your core temperature below 60 Celcius. it can go higher, but 60 is a nice bench mark. Mine runs constantly 38 - 47 Degrees Celcius. Ambiant is arond 35 - 45 degrees celcius. I am using a liquid cooler however. Hope this helps =P -- phrag http://gan.gs/box Linux-2.4.24 Slackware-9.1-current |
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Hate to butt in here, but I was just reading this thread and the original
poster has my same overclock. I upped mine from 133 to 140. Anything higher than 142 causes a rounding error in Prime 95. I notice at 144 with voltage upped by about 3-4% it crashed in 30 minutes twice. Then I doubled the increase in the voltage and it crashed in about 19 minutes three times. Of course the second test got the chip hotter, but my readings never show it going over 68c at the hottest point. And the first test temps were only up to 66c. What I'm getting to is, does anyone here think at that temp I could be throwing an error in Prime95 due to heat alone? And in the same vein, maybe that's pretty hot anyway for that small of an amount of oc and a better heat sink is in order. I'll drop the dough if it means I can oc higher and stay stable. Tim "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... I think you have your monitoring program set incorrectly. Though with an operating system like Windows 2000 or newer, the CPU temperature is likely to be lower than the system temperature when idle, this is NOT the case when the CPU is under heavy load. If you have good CPU cooling, 46 degrees C is not an unreasonable CPU temperature while running SETI (SETI, even though the CPU usage shows 99%, does not use as much power as programs written especially to max out heat generation.) A temperature of 42 degrees C is a bit high for a system temperature (actually the temperature at a spot on the motherboard), better air circulation within the case might bring that down, but if ambient room air is blown directly into the fan of the CPU heatsink (and the CPU heatsink fan blow into the heatsink), the motherboard temperature has little effect on the CPU temperature. At any rate, your overclock is VERY mild, and since you don't mention increasing the CPU core voltage, I doubt the CPU heat production is up more than (140-133)/133 = 5 %. Really, extra cooling for overclocking is for stability, not safety, when using Intel CPU's since the Pentium 60/66. Your system will show instability long before the CPU temperature exceeds specifications for very long, and the Pentium 4 will automatically shut down long before damage from heat occurs. Raising the core voltage is a different matter. If you raise the CPU core voltage by an unreasonable amount, it will kill the CPU. Raising the CPU core voltage by a reasonable amount will generate more heat, but that will won't damage the CPU, though additional CPU cooling may be necessary. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "David Hansen" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David |
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There is no such thing as "butting in" on Usenet B^)
Overclocking depends on tradeoffs. Intel builds CPU's with a very large performance margin to insure reliability. The official Intel limiting operating temperature for most Intel CPU's is between 70 and 80 degrees C. Now, if we are willing to monitor our systems carefully, and accept the possibility of a few glitches, then we can overclock. When a CPU is run at higher speeds, the transitions between high and low logic levels get a bit uglier, and the possibility that a high may be interpreted as a low (or vice versa) increases. There generally is a lot of extra separation built in, so we can usually overclock 20% or more with no other changes. Once instability begins to occur, then additional margin can be gained by increasing the CPU core voltage by a small percentage (hopefully, less than 10%.) This increase means the separation between the logic levels will be higher, and that more current will be drawn by the transistor gates as they switch. The higher current makes the switch faster and more reliable. Increasing the speed increases the average current draw (more switchings per second) and thus produces more heat. Increasing the core voltage increases the base line current draw AND the current draw for each gate as it switches, and thus ALSO produces more heat. More heat increases the noise in the chip, which adds to the ugliness of the transitions between the logic levels. Thus keeping the chip cool has a dual rule... keeping the transitions as clean as possible, and keeping the CPU temperature below the maximum rating. The heatsink/fan supplied with boxed, retail Intel CPU's is quite good, and usually enough for a nice overclock. Extreme overclocking requires better cooling, and heroic cooling (chilled water forced convection or even cryogenic) can get even higher overclocks (of course, by that time, it is cheaper just to get a faster rated CPU in the first place. Some individual CPU's are better overclockers than others. Some types of CPU's are better overclockers than others. Some steppings of CPU's (modification to the circuitry on the die at the factory) are better overclockers than others. The Intel Celeron 300a could easily do a 50% overclock, sometimes without either increased core voltage or increased cooling. The Intel Pentium III 1 GHz would barely do a 33% overclock, even with the best of efforts (it was near the limit for that CPU core type.) The Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz Northwood would easily do a 50% overclock (albeit with a bit of voltage and cooling help.) The Intel Pentium 4 1.6 non-Northwood would barely break 1.8 GHz (it was near the limit for that CPU core type. Also, the operating conditions of the other components have an effect on stability. One reason the Celeron 300a is so easy to overclock is that ALL the other components could be operated at stock speed. This is not necessarily true for the Pentium 4. Parts of the chipset must be overclocked. The memory may need to be overclocked. Higher power demands put more stress on the motherboard and especially the on-motherboard DC/DC convertor/regulators that power the CPU, chipset, and memory. A short answer... your CPU temperature of 66 or 68 degrees C seems too high, and an indication that something may be wrong. More diagnostic information is necessary to give a helpful answer: ambient room air temperture motherboard temperature CPU temperature at idle (if Windows 2000 or later is installed) the operating system the memory rated speed .... It may not be the heat alone, but just that the higher temperature is the final straw. Hope this helps. Overclocking is just basically screwing around until something works. The only killer is raising the core voltage unreasonably... that can kill a CPU immediately. Heat death does not really happen to Intel CPU's... they are too well protected by the internal thermtrip diode that shuts the CPU down when the temperature gets somewhere around 150 degrees C (and the CPU will have stopped cycling and cooled down way before that point is reached.) The Prescott will throttle down even before the rated maximum operating temperature is reached, willy-nilly. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "Mr Jones" wrote in message ... Hate to butt in here, but I was just reading this thread and the original poster has my same overclock. I upped mine from 133 to 140. Anything higher than 142 causes a rounding error in Prime 95. I notice at 144 with voltage upped by about 3-4% it crashed in 30 minutes twice. Then I doubled the increase in the voltage and it crashed in about 19 minutes three times. Of course the second test got the chip hotter, but my readings never show it going over 68c at the hottest point. And the first test temps were only up to 66c. What I'm getting to is, does anyone here think at that temp I could be throwing an error in Prime95 due to heat alone? And in the same vein, maybe that's pretty hot anyway for that small of an amount of oc and a better heat sink is in order. I'll drop the dough if it means I can oc higher and stay stable. Tim "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... I think you have your monitoring program set incorrectly. Though with an operating system like Windows 2000 or newer, the CPU temperature is likely to be lower than the system temperature when idle, this is NOT the case when the CPU is under heavy load. If you have good CPU cooling, 46 degrees C is not an unreasonable CPU temperature while running SETI (SETI, even though the CPU usage shows 99%, does not use as much power as programs written especially to max out heat generation.) A temperature of 42 degrees C is a bit high for a system temperature (actually the temperature at a spot on the motherboard), better air circulation within the case might bring that down, but if ambient room air is blown directly into the fan of the CPU heatsink (and the CPU heatsink fan blow into the heatsink), the motherboard temperature has little effect on the CPU temperature. At any rate, your overclock is VERY mild, and since you don't mention increasing the CPU core voltage, I doubt the CPU heat production is up more than (140-133)/133 = 5 %. Really, extra cooling for overclocking is for stability, not safety, when using Intel CPU's since the Pentium 60/66. Your system will show instability long before the CPU temperature exceeds specifications for very long, and the Pentium 4 will automatically shut down long before damage from heat occurs. Raising the core voltage is a different matter. If you raise the CPU core voltage by an unreasonable amount, it will kill the CPU. Raising the CPU core voltage by a reasonable amount will generate more heat, but that will won't damage the CPU, though additional CPU cooling may be necessary. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "David Hansen" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David |
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There is no such thing as butting in on usenet, Mr. jone, but there is such
a thing as posting binary attachments in a non-binary newsgroup. In your case, the Prime95 errors could just as easily be caused by memory as the cpu. Try MemTest86, a free memory checker that runs from a boot floppy. "Mr Jones" wrote in message ... I've taken the liberty of attaching two screen shot that give info on the chip and system. The ambient temp in the room is about 65. The motherboard stays around 32-33 during torture time, and 30 otherwise. At idle, the chip is hanging around at 37c. I'll be happy to offer any other info necessary to critique my system. Thanks for the detailed response. Lots of good info. Tim "Phil Weldon" wrote in message . net... There is no such thing as "butting in" on Usenet B^) Overclocking depends on tradeoffs. Intel builds CPU's with a very large performance margin to insure reliability. The official Intel limiting operating temperature for most Intel CPU's is between 70 and 80 degrees C. Now, if we are willing to monitor our systems carefully, and accept the possibility of a few glitches, then we can overclock. When a CPU is run at higher speeds, the transitions between high and low logic levels get a bit uglier, and the possibility that a high may be interpreted as a low (or vice versa) increases. There generally is a lot of extra separation built in, so we can usually overclock 20% or more with no other changes. Once instability begins to occur, then additional margin can be gained by increasing the CPU core voltage by a small percentage (hopefully, less than 10%.) This increase means the separation between the logic levels will be higher, and that more current will be drawn by the transistor gates as they switch. The higher current makes the switch faster and more reliable. Increasing the speed increases the average current draw (more switchings per second) and thus produces more heat. Increasing the core voltage increases the base line current draw AND the current draw for each gate as it switches, and thus ALSO produces more heat. More heat increases the noise in the chip, which adds to the ugliness of the transitions between the logic levels. Thus keeping the chip cool has a dual rule... keeping the transitions as clean as possible, and keeping the CPU temperature below the maximum rating. The heatsink/fan supplied with boxed, retail Intel CPU's is quite good, and usually enough for a nice overclock. Extreme overclocking requires better cooling, and heroic cooling (chilled water forced convection or even cryogenic) can get even higher overclocks (of course, by that time, it is cheaper just to get a faster rated CPU in the first place. Some individual CPU's are better overclockers than others. Some types of CPU's are better overclockers than others. Some steppings of CPU's (modification to the circuitry on the die at the factory) are better overclockers than others. The Intel Celeron 300a could easily do a 50% overclock, sometimes without either increased core voltage or increased cooling. The Intel Pentium III 1 GHz would barely do a 33% overclock, even with the best of efforts (it was near the limit for that CPU core type.) The Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz Northwood would easily do a 50% overclock (albeit with a bit of voltage and cooling help.) The Intel Pentium 4 1.6 non-Northwood would barely break 1.8 GHz (it was near the limit for that CPU core type. Also, the operating conditions of the other components have an effect on stability. One reason the Celeron 300a is so easy to overclock is that ALL the other components could be operated at stock speed. This is not necessarily true for the Pentium 4. Parts of the chipset must be overclocked. The memory may need to be overclocked. Higher power demands put more stress on the motherboard and especially the on-motherboard DC/DC convertor/regulators that power the CPU, chipset, and memory. A short answer... your CPU temperature of 66 or 68 degrees C seems too high, and an indication that something may be wrong. More diagnostic information is necessary to give a helpful answer: ambient room air temperture motherboard temperature CPU temperature at idle (if Windows 2000 or later is installed) the operating system the memory rated speed ... It may not be the heat alone, but just that the higher temperature is the final straw. Hope this helps. Overclocking is just basically screwing around until something works. The only killer is raising the core voltage unreasonably... that can kill a CPU immediately. Heat death does not really happen to Intel CPU's... they are too well protected by the internal thermtrip diode that shuts the CPU down when the temperature gets somewhere around 150 degrees C (and the CPU will have stopped cycling and cooled down way before that point is reached.) The Prescott will throttle down even before the rated maximum operating temperature is reached, willy-nilly. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "Mr Jones" wrote in message ... Hate to butt in here, but I was just reading this thread and the original poster has my same overclock. I upped mine from 133 to 140. Anything higher than 142 causes a rounding error in Prime 95. I notice at 144 with voltage upped by about 3-4% it crashed in 30 minutes twice. Then I doubled the increase in the voltage and it crashed in about 19 minutes three times. Of course the second test got the chip hotter, but my readings never show it going over 68c at the hottest point. And the first test temps were only up to 66c. What I'm getting to is, does anyone here think at that temp I could be throwing an error in Prime95 due to heat alone? And in the same vein, maybe that's pretty hot anyway for that small of an amount of oc and a better heat sink is in order. I'll drop the dough if it means I can oc higher and stay stable. Tim "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... I think you have your monitoring program set incorrectly. Though with an operating system like Windows 2000 or newer, the CPU temperature is likely to be lower than the system temperature when idle, this is NOT the case when the CPU is under heavy load. If you have good CPU cooling, 46 degrees C is not an unreasonable CPU temperature while running SETI (SETI, even though the CPU usage shows 99%, does not use as much power as programs written especially to max out heat generation.) A temperature of 42 degrees C is a bit high for a system temperature (actually the temperature at a spot on the motherboard), better air circulation within the case might bring that down, but if ambient room air is blown directly into the fan of the CPU heatsink (and the CPU heatsink fan blow into the heatsink), the motherboard temperature has little effect on the CPU temperature. At any rate, your overclock is VERY mild, and since you don't mention increasing the CPU core voltage, I doubt the CPU heat production is up more than (140-133)/133 = 5 %. Really, extra cooling for overclocking is for stability, not safety, when using Intel CPU's since the Pentium 60/66. Your system will show instability long before the CPU temperature exceeds specifications for very long, and the Pentium 4 will automatically shut down long before damage from heat occurs. Raising the core voltage is a different matter. If you raise the CPU core voltage by an unreasonable amount, it will kill the CPU. Raising the CPU core voltage by a reasonable amount will generate more heat, but that will won't damage the CPU, though additional CPU cooling may be necessary. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "David Hansen" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David |
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If your CPU idle temperture is 37 degrees C and your room ambient
temperature is 65 F and you are using Windows 2000 or later, something is badly wrong with your heatsink/fan or its installation, and your motherboard temperature shows there is something badly wrong with your system case ventilation; a difference of 12 to 14 degrees C between your motherboard temperature and your room ambient temperature is abnormally high. This is assuming that you don't live on the doorstep to hell and your room ambient temperature is not 65 degrees C (which would be 149 F... it is not a good idea to mix temperature scales, especially if you don't identify which scale is used EACH time.) -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "Mr Jones" wrote in message ... I've taken the liberty of attaching two screen shot that give info on the chip and system. The ambient temp in the room is about 65. The motherboard stays around 32-33 during torture time, and 30 otherwise. At idle, the chip is hanging around at 37c. I'll be happy to offer any other info necessary to critique my system. Thanks for the detailed response. Lots of good info. Tim "Phil Weldon" wrote in message . net... There is no such thing as "butting in" on Usenet B^) Overclocking depends on tradeoffs. Intel builds CPU's with a very large performance margin to insure reliability. The official Intel limiting operating temperature for most Intel CPU's is between 70 and 80 degrees C. Now, if we are willing to monitor our systems carefully, and accept the possibility of a few glitches, then we can overclock. When a CPU is run at higher speeds, the transitions between high and low logic levels get a bit uglier, and the possibility that a high may be interpreted as a low (or vice versa) increases. There generally is a lot of extra separation built in, so we can usually overclock 20% or more with no other changes. Once instability begins to occur, then additional margin can be gained by increasing the CPU core voltage by a small percentage (hopefully, less than 10%.) This increase means the separation between the logic levels will be higher, and that more current will be drawn by the transistor gates as they switch. The higher current makes the switch faster and more reliable. Increasing the speed increases the average current draw (more switchings per second) and thus produces more heat. Increasing the core voltage increases the base line current draw AND the current draw for each gate as it switches, and thus ALSO produces more heat. More heat increases the noise in the chip, which adds to the ugliness of the transitions between the logic levels. Thus keeping the chip cool has a dual rule... keeping the transitions as clean as possible, and keeping the CPU temperature below the maximum rating. The heatsink/fan supplied with boxed, retail Intel CPU's is quite good, and usually enough for a nice overclock. Extreme overclocking requires better cooling, and heroic cooling (chilled water forced convection or even cryogenic) can get even higher overclocks (of course, by that time, it is cheaper just to get a faster rated CPU in the first place. Some individual CPU's are better overclockers than others. Some types of CPU's are better overclockers than others. Some steppings of CPU's (modification to the circuitry on the die at the factory) are better overclockers than others. The Intel Celeron 300a could easily do a 50% overclock, sometimes without either increased core voltage or increased cooling. The Intel Pentium III 1 GHz would barely do a 33% overclock, even with the best of efforts (it was near the limit for that CPU core type.) The Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz Northwood would easily do a 50% overclock (albeit with a bit of voltage and cooling help.) The Intel Pentium 4 1.6 non-Northwood would barely break 1.8 GHz (it was near the limit for that CPU core type. Also, the operating conditions of the other components have an effect on stability. One reason the Celeron 300a is so easy to overclock is that ALL the other components could be operated at stock speed. This is not necessarily true for the Pentium 4. Parts of the chipset must be overclocked. The memory may need to be overclocked. Higher power demands put more stress on the motherboard and especially the on-motherboard DC/DC convertor/regulators that power the CPU, chipset, and memory. A short answer... your CPU temperature of 66 or 68 degrees C seems too high, and an indication that something may be wrong. More diagnostic information is necessary to give a helpful answer: ambient room air temperture motherboard temperature CPU temperature at idle (if Windows 2000 or later is installed) the operating system the memory rated speed ... It may not be the heat alone, but just that the higher temperature is the final straw. Hope this helps. Overclocking is just basically screwing around until something works. The only killer is raising the core voltage unreasonably... that can kill a CPU immediately. Heat death does not really happen to Intel CPU's... they are too well protected by the internal thermtrip diode that shuts the CPU down when the temperature gets somewhere around 150 degrees C (and the CPU will have stopped cycling and cooled down way before that point is reached.) The Prescott will throttle down even before the rated maximum operating temperature is reached, willy-nilly. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "Mr Jones" wrote in message ... Hate to butt in here, but I was just reading this thread and the original poster has my same overclock. I upped mine from 133 to 140. Anything higher than 142 causes a rounding error in Prime 95. I notice at 144 with voltage upped by about 3-4% it crashed in 30 minutes twice. Then I doubled the increase in the voltage and it crashed in about 19 minutes three times. Of course the second test got the chip hotter, but my readings never show it going over 68c at the hottest point. And the first test temps were only up to 66c. What I'm getting to is, does anyone here think at that temp I could be throwing an error in Prime95 due to heat alone? And in the same vein, maybe that's pretty hot anyway for that small of an amount of oc and a better heat sink is in order. I'll drop the dough if it means I can oc higher and stay stable. Tim "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... I think you have your monitoring program set incorrectly. Though with an operating system like Windows 2000 or newer, the CPU temperature is likely to be lower than the system temperature when idle, this is NOT the case when the CPU is under heavy load. If you have good CPU cooling, 46 degrees C is not an unreasonable CPU temperature while running SETI (SETI, even though the CPU usage shows 99%, does not use as much power as programs written especially to max out heat generation.) A temperature of 42 degrees C is a bit high for a system temperature (actually the temperature at a spot on the motherboard), better air circulation within the case might bring that down, but if ambient room air is blown directly into the fan of the CPU heatsink (and the CPU heatsink fan blow into the heatsink), the motherboard temperature has little effect on the CPU temperature. At any rate, your overclock is VERY mild, and since you don't mention increasing the CPU core voltage, I doubt the CPU heat production is up more than (140-133)/133 = 5 %. Really, extra cooling for overclocking is for stability, not safety, when using Intel CPU's since the Pentium 60/66. Your system will show instability long before the CPU temperature exceeds specifications for very long, and the Pentium 4 will automatically shut down long before damage from heat occurs. Raising the core voltage is a different matter. If you raise the CPU core voltage by an unreasonable amount, it will kill the CPU. Raising the CPU core voltage by a reasonable amount will generate more heat, but that will won't damage the CPU, though additional CPU cooling may be necessary. -- Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom For communication, replace "at" with the 'at sign' replace "mindjump" with "mindspring." replace "dot" with "." "David Hansen" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a P4 2.4GHz, with a 533fsb. I have upped the clock-speed from 133 to 140 in the BIOS, and the system seem to be running nicely. I was wandering at what sort for temperatures (CPU & System) should I start to get nervous? I currently have 46°C for the system and 42°C for the CPU, while running the SETI program (99% CPU shown in Task Master). I am using Easy Tune 4 from Gigabyte, to monitor the temperatures, though I don't know where the system temperature sensor is (the Motherboard is a Gigabyte 8ST800). Thanks, David |
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Phil Weldon wrote:
If your CPU idle temperture is 37 degrees C and your room ambient temperature is 65 F and you are using Windows 2000 or later, something is badly wrong with your heatsink/fan or its installation, and your motherboard temperature shows there is something badly wrong with your system case ventilation; a difference of 12 to 14 degrees C between your motherboard temperature and your room ambient temperature is abnormally high. snip It depends on how the case temp is measured. On my mobo the case temp thermistor is right in the air flow from my graphics card. Sometimes, on idle, my case temp reads up to 5°C higher than my CPU diode temp. (CPU fed cool air ducted from outside the case). -- ~misfit~ |
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all this talk got me to wanting to check the accuracy of my mobos "system"
temp reading. Its pretty much dead on! I hung the thermistor from a Radio Shack Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer in the central area, out of the airflow from the cpu hs/fan. I forget exactly where the mobo gets its readings from, but at idle/stress the RS therm and the "system" reading fluctuate together. Mobo: Soyo Dragon+ -- Good Luck! BB "~misfit~" wrote in message ... : Phil Weldon wrote: : If your CPU idle temperture is 37 degrees C and your room ambient : temperature is 65 F and you are using Windows 2000 or later, : something is badly wrong with your heatsink/fan or its installation, : and your motherboard temperature shows there is something badly wrong : with your system case ventilation; a difference of 12 to 14 degrees : C between your motherboard temperature and your room ambient : temperature is abnormally high. : : snip : : It depends on how the case temp is measured. On my mobo the case temp : thermistor is right in the air flow from my graphics card. Sometimes, on : idle, my case temp reads up to 5°C higher than my CPU diode temp. (CPU fed : cool air ducted from outside the case). : -- : ~misfit~ : : |
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