24/7 Running Temps. How High Do You Run Yours?

Bony Maloney

Bony Maloney

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Just curios as to how high you are happy to run your cpu temps 24/7, oh and voltages for that matter (Cpu-z). Mine are 57c average, 1.34v (Q6600 @ 3.4 Ghz).
Thanks.
 
my max is about 68c core, 75c PWM (high limit is 80 argh!), system 25c after 5 mins of Prime95

idle is 28c core, 38c PWM, 25c system

and about 34c core, 40c PWM, 25c sytem when Im doing work, photoshopping etc...

You rekon 75c PWM is too high? what exactly is PWM? motherboard? or Northbridge?
 
Found this:
"PWM" is a circuit on mainboards to convert the voltage level from power supply unit to provide specific voltage to components (ex. Provide CPU with core voltage). We know that CPU could be the hottest component inside a PC system, and we always care about the heat dissipation of it. Actually, the PWM circuit is quite hot too; especially when CPU is at full loading, large current passes through the PWM circuit and was converted to necessary CPU core voltage. Some ABIT boards show "PWM temperature" on BIOS setup page and Windows hardware monitoring tool. This provides users possible hottest temperature inside the PC chassis, and check whether the air conditioning inside the chassis needs to be enhanced or not. When CPU works heavily, the CPU temperature could be around 60 degree C; nevertheless, the PWM temperature may achieve 70 degree C or even higher; depends on the design of thermal convection. The safety limit of the PWM temperature is about 120 degree C, however, we strongly recommend improving the air flow and heat dissipation inside the PC chassis once it rises to 100 degree C.
PWM = Pulse Width Modulation."
 
excellent Bony, thanks for that, abit uguru was telling me 80c was the high limit for the PWM, but I have reset the Cmos and dont know if thats still a good guidline since I've overclocked it.
 
Yeh, mine is set at 80c High warning, the info above isn't specific to our board. It's just a guide line. If you are concerned, post a specific thread about it young. I'm not sure to be honest m8. You might get to see what other peoples PWM temps are then, and get some better guide lines specific to our board.
 
Bony Maloney said:
Found this:
"PWM" is a circuit on mainboards to convert the voltage level from power supply unit to provide specific voltage to components (ex. Provide CPU with core voltage). We know that CPU could be the hottest component inside a PC system, and we always care about the heat dissipation of it. Actually, the PWM circuit is quite hot too; especially when CPU is at full loading, large current passes through the PWM circuit and was converted to necessary CPU core voltage. Some ABIT boards show "PWM temperature" on BIOS setup page and Windows hardware monitoring tool. This provides users possible hottest temperature inside the PC chassis, and check whether the air conditioning inside the chassis needs to be enhanced or not. When CPU works heavily, the CPU temperature could be around 60 degree C; nevertheless, the PWM temperature may achieve 70 degree C or even higher; depends on the design of thermal convection. The safety limit of the PWM temperature is about 120 degree C, however, we strongly recommend improving the air flow and heat dissipation inside the PC chassis once it rises to 100 degree C.
PWM = Pulse Width Modulation."
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Bony, mate, I'm really hoping that that thing is a google translation :).
 
would what kill the core?

TBH running the CPU hot is probably fine for years...I've actually never heard of a C2D roasting to death
 
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