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What is a safe temperature for 3950X running 24/7?

milkb

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For 100% load at all times, what temperature should I aim for running 24/7 to not degrade the CPU that soon? It would be great to hear people using this for running 24/7.

I am currently running at 4.2 GHz with 1.2 Vcore. Water cooled. Temperature staying at 63-65 C.
 
milkb said:
For 100% load at all times, what temperature should I aim for running 24/7 to not degrade the CPU that soon? It would be great to hear people using this for running 24/7.

I am currently running at 4.2 GHz with 1.2 Vcore. Water cooled. Temperature staying at 63-65 C.
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What do you run it 24/7 for ? just interested
 
milkb said:
For 100% load at all times, what temperature should I aim for running 24/7 to not degrade the CPU that soon? It would be great to hear people using this for running 24/7.

I am currently running at 4.2 GHz with 1.2 Vcore. Water cooled. Temperature staying at 63-65 C.
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milkb said:
Thanks. I am thinking if I should push it to 4.3/4.4 GHz to run 24/7.
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May I ask why? 3950X performs better without all core overclock. You simply make the CPU operate slower than it should in light loads.
Except if you render at 100% load 24/7 there is no reason to do so.
 
Panos said:
May I ask why? 3950X performs better without all core overclock. You simply make the CPU operate slower than it should in light loads.
Except if you render at 100% load 24/7 there is no reason to do so.
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he just said he's running the cpu at 100% load that means all 32 threads. If the CPU is left stock it will only run at 3.9ghz to 4ghz with this load so doing 4.3ghz overclock gives you 300 to 400mhz extra on every core and thread
 
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Could you touch it for more than a minute without feeling pain and discomfort? Safe for a human = safe for a computer. I wouldn't subject my computer to any kind of torcher I couldn't handle myself.
 
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Panos said:
May I ask why? 3950X performs better without all core overclock. You simply make the CPU operate slower than it should in light loads.
Except if you render at 100% load 24/7 there is no reason to do so.
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he just said he's running the cpu at 100% load that means all 32 threads. If the CPU is left stock it will only run at 3.9ghz to 4ghz with this load so doing 4.3ghz overclock gives you 300 to 400mhz extra on every core and thread
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Yup. So setting a fixed clock gives me a little extra performance. Just trying to know what is a safe temperature to run it for a long period of time.
 
milkb said:
Yup. So setting a fixed clock gives me a little extra performance. Just trying to know what is a safe temperature to run it for a long period of time.
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Little extra performance on what type of work? Cinebench? Yes. Rendering? Yes.
Gaming and general light load usage? Hell no.
 
Panos said:
Little extra performance on what type of work? Cinebench? Yes. Rendering? Yes.
Gaming and general light load usage? Hell no.
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again he said 100%, ain't no games doing that. It's about 10% extra, still nice to have.

And for games they have the same performance or slightly better with the overclock




dunno where you got the idea from that games perform worse on an overclocked 3950x do you have evidence to back up that claim?

it's also pretty telling - the next gen consoles run all core fixed clocks - they do that cause it's better than stock boost
 
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