Soldato
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hi, whats the max temp for these? i have found the voltage range and every other piece of info, just not their max temp. thanks in advance.
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Tcase is not the same as core temperature. They will not throttle until core temperature (measured with Real Temp or Core Temp) reaches 100 °C. Personally I'd say as long as you stay under 90 °C when under full load (Prime95 or IBT, whichever makes your CPU hotter), you're fine.
Those temperatures at 3.2 GHz are high though. If you're not planning to overclock then you're fine but if you are, get a better cooler. If you already have a good cooler then I'd suggest remounting it.
oh, well this is good, i was panicing as it kept going over the 67 °C. so its safe up to low 90s under complete stress load?
bare in mind you've got HT on, on a stock cooler, whilst running a prog "deisgned" to intentionally kick the bejeezus out of a cpu to push it till it falls over, so unsurprisingly it's running hot.
don't underestimate i7 chips ( 920/30/40 etc ) there tough chips, a damn sight tougher than the new i5's, if your genuinely worried, change coolers, which i personally would & do do as a matter of routine, as ive never been impressed by the performance of any stock heatsink.
That one big advantage of these coolers. All the space is taken at the back. So it wont creep over the memory slots. I have the crazy tall OCZ reaper with a H50 on mine, so it's all good.
This looks like an ace cooler btw. Only one review but it's positive. OTT if it is just to fix some BSOD issue though, and the fix would be hypothetical. If you have a plug-in energy meter, worth checking the power consumption of the rig, although 600W PSU should be OK.
its running hot too, aswell as the BSODsif his is easy enough to fit might get one of these when i order my phenom.
The H50 and that other closed loop require you do install a backplate on the motherboard. Basically it will take a long time to install if your case doesn't have a hole where the backplate is.