Safety cut off on CPUs?

Depending on the motherboard the safety cut out can be turned on or off.

I would have thought it would be under hardware monitoring or CPU features in the BIOS.
 
Intel chips (and probably AMD) will shut off or halt processing to avoid damage to themselves you may well find that another half a degree will trigger a shutdown or it could be as high as 105
 
The cpu's tend to throttle when the temps get to high.

You can setup warnings and shutdowns in BIOS.
 
Well I can say that's way over what you should be getting.

The CPU should throttle if it get's too hot.

I've building an extreme budget E8400 system for a work mate and it's currenty into 1 hour of Heaven benching. CPU at max 62c average 64c max temp. It's got a very slightly better heatsink stock from a Q9450.

Running an HD 4890 for reference 81-83c.
 
The CPUs will be fine, even very old Intel CPUs will prevent overheating by inserting No Operation instructions to effectively slow the CPU down.

I'd take care with the GPU, give it a good clean if you haven't already.
 
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