is 62c too hot?

[mystifmagic]

Call me old fashioned, but I still use Toast along with benchmark applications for stress testing. Good Luck

[russ_watters]

Originally posted by ATilaptops
Heck man I have over 50c at idle sometimes at stock! How can you check temps at full load anyway?

Um, to check your temps at full load, check your temps at full load.....or maybe I don't understand the question.

FYI, simple, startup temperature is utterly meaningless - it takes about 10 minutes of running for your temps to come up.

And stress/stability testing..... how about a GAME?

[ATilaptops]

How do you check temps when playing a game? I ran super pi and my highest temp on speedfan was 56c.

[Cristian]

hey,
what about 60degrees under load at max... is that acceptable?

Yes, it is. It may come as a surprise for you, but most people here like to brag about their cooling and sub50C temps.
I lived just fine with my old Tbird @1350MHz at 64C (load, mesured with under socket sensor, the die could be 10-20C higher) for over 1 year. Rock stable, just hot. A 60C running Tbred/Barton (temps mesured within the core) doesn't impres me at all. One oaf my friends has an JIUHB running 63-64C also, no worries, is still going strong.
And yes, the best Athlon heating tool is TOAST. My old Tbird would hit 70C with Toast(again, no crashes)

[pahncrd]

Originally posted by Cristian
Yes, it is. It may come as a surprise for you, but most people here like to brag about their cooling and sub50C temps.
I lived just fine with my old Tbird @1350MHz at 64C (load, mesured with under socket sensor, the die could be 10-20C higher) for over 1 year. Rock stable, just hot. A 60C running Tbred/Barton (temps mesured within the core) doesn't impres me at all. One oaf my friends has an JIUHB running 63-64C also, no worries, is still going strong.
And yes, the best Athlon heating tool is TOAST. My old Tbird would hit 70C with Toast(again, no crashes)

That temp of 60 degrees is with the on chip sensor, not the under chip socket one. Socket is always about 40-45 degrees. Considering it s pretty beefy OC on air, I think it's proly alright.

[Cristian]

That temp of 60 degrees is with the on chip sensor, not the under chip socket one. Socket is always about 40-45 degrees. Considering it s pretty beefy OC on air, I think it's proly alright.

That was my point

[adslegend]

I say it's fine if it's a diode reading, and even if it was a socket reading I wouldn't give **** until I had bad stability problems because with modern mobos it is actually very hard to cook a chip, even an AMD that has no built-in thermal throttling. The simple truth is none of us can do apples-to-apples temperature comparisons because there are so many variables between systems.

[sapasion]

My diode reading can get into the low 60ºC range at full load so the temp isn't the greatest concern. What is and should be is system stability. A warm stable system is always better than a cool unstable one. Admittedly cooler is better than warmer but stability is the prime key.