Whats too hot for you?

Vertiginous · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:08

Everyone is different in the way that we thing and the way that we react to different things, My question then is

How hot is to hot for your cpu?

personally i stop doing what im doing at around 70-80 degrees

panyan · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:16

ZalmanZ9+ said:
Whats too hot for you?

McDonalds Apple Pie

Seriously, anything in the low 90's is too much for me

pandem0nium · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:18

Too hot is the point at which it stops working.

Vertiginous · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:30

pandem0nium said:
Too hot is the point at which it stops working.

Is that not a bit risky?

panyan said:
McDonalds Apple Pie

Oh The Burn

pepp77 · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:33

Neither of my machines ever go above 55c so I don't worry about them. My laptop on the other hand has been known to hit 100c, that does worry me a bit, but its getting on for 4 years old now and not missing a beat so can't complain.

Narn · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:35

about up to 80c in prime or intel burntest i feel comfortable with. i know that games wont get as hot

Vertiginous · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:37

pepp77 said:
My laptop on the other hand has been known to hit 100c, that does worry me a bit, but its getting on for 4 years old now and not missing a beat so can't complain.

Dam, Only thing that ever neally reached that for me was my old 8800GT, That card somehow managed to hit over 105 When i was playing battlefield, Card's dead now. , recently looked at my brothers laptop temp and saw that it was running at around 80 idle, Almost died when i saw that

Narn · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:47

ZalmanZ9+ said:
Dam, Only thing that ever neally reached that for me was my old 8800GT, That card somehow managed to hit over 105 When i was playing battlefield, Card's dead now. , recently looked at my brothers laptop temp and saw that it was running at around 80 idle, Almost died when i saw that

holy smokes, and i say thhat literally!

wildman · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:54

I always thought anything over 70° was bad for business. But I gues modern CPUs will throtle when they reach critical temps anyway these day ?

For a 24/7 clock I try to keep it in mid 60s when under full load in prime. For normal daya to use it likely wont get this high

pandem0nium · 6 Feb 2013 at 20:59

ZalmanZ9+ said:
Is that not a bit risky?

I think you need to find that point, so you can find the highest clock speed within that limit. Then scale down the voltage when you've found that optimum clock speed to the point it becomes unstable again.

setter · 6 Feb 2013 at 21:07

With the spec in sig, i prefer to keep the cpu below 80c. Hits 75c max at 100% load in p95. Mid 50's in game. As for the gpu, dont want it hitting 70c as the 600 series cards throttle down at this point. Luckily though, it only gets to 67c in benching, mid to high 50's in game. Card is clocked at 1310/7560.

Yaayuh! · 7 Feb 2013 at 09:13

80c+ on IBT is too hot for me.

ubersonic · 7 Feb 2013 at 09:26

ZalmanZ9+ said:
That card somehow managed to hit over 105 When i was playing battlefield, Card's dead now.

Im shocked

robin66 · 7 Feb 2013 at 09:40

ZalmanZ9+ said:
Everyone is different in the way that we thing and the way that we react to different things, My question then is

How hot is to hot for your cpu?

personally i stop doing what im doing at around 70-80 degrees

I try to keep everything under 70 degrees during normal usage. But for stress testing 80 is my limit also.

I was glad I swapped out my gtx 480's for my 670's, they could both kick out some heat. On the plus side, they did make my room nice and warm during the cold weather.

Devrij · 7 Feb 2013 at 09:48

Narn said:
about up to 80c in prime or intel burntest i feel comfortable with. i know that games wont get as hot

Same here, if it doesn't go above 80-85C in IBT, then I'm happy with it for 24/7 use.

In actual usage, I wouldn't be too happy if it was hitting anything over 75C in strenuous applications, and I don't think I've seen my cpu go over 70C in any application I use besides stress tests.

GPU, I don't like going over 80C, mainly because that means the VRMs are also getting really toasty which can cause artifacts/crashes on my card.

ubersonic · 7 Feb 2013 at 10:48

My CPU tends to run ~60 under Prime, ~50 under F@H, 40's while gaming, GPU hits up to 50 while gaming, think ive got quite a bit of room for OC'ing but don't really see a point as nothing is causing issues at 4GHz.

melvis · 7 Feb 2013 at 11:11

prime pushes my cpu to about 60C, usually about 50 in games, GPU sits at about 50 too, at this time of year at least, prime gets closer to 70 during the summer

flippant · 7 Feb 2013 at 11:40

I try to keep mine below 80 when I'm rendering, but only because they slow down when they hit the thermal threshold.

I'm always running them close to throttling but I've yet to kill anything but a laptop with heat, and on the laptop it was the motherboard solder melted, the processor is still fine.

On a hot day, if I'm doing a lot of rendering, my processors can spend a lot of time up around 90, doesn't seem to do any harm, but that's the time I'll take off the case side and point a desk fan at them.

Rendering does seem to cause a lot more heat than Prime95.

ltnmzh · 7 Feb 2013 at 11:48

80c. 80c itself is not too high but think there could be local areas on the die that could be much higher.

wazza300 · 7 Feb 2013 at 11:53

i agree on anything over 80c,odd spikes to between 80-83c are ok aslong as it doesnt sit there

ideally you wanna try and stay below 80