Hiya all, Celeron 2.93ghz, 512 mb pc3200, asus p4s800, geforce4 mx440. What temp do you have to reach to pose a danger to your CPU? In bios after a reboot, directly after playing BF1942, I got 76.5c. And is the danger temp the same whether it's overclocked or not (it's not yet, but I've read it can be clocked to 3.8ghz!)? Thanks! Cow
76.5 Idle? That is definatly too hot, and overclocking a celery to 3.8GHz? Haven't heard of that before, but you'll probably melt the cpu! EDIT: Realised you said after playing BF1942, still on the high side. More fans, better/bigger heatsink? But as some say, if it aint broke don't fix it. Trying to find a database on die temps, seen one before.
lol yeah that is a little hot though it will be ok if it hasnt shown signs of instability. could be a dodgy sensor also.
my old p3-700 used to run at 45c or so, but I know the northwood's are supposed to be much hotter... Just installed MBM5, reading 32 case, 62 cpu. Guess that low profile cooler's got to go... What's a good aiming point for temp? Tom's hardware claims they got a celeron northwood 2.8 up to 3.8 and whupped a p4 3 gig in the process...
it is possible though im thinking you would at least need watercooling unless you got an exceptional chip.i would aim for a load temp of 50-60C max. running prime95 torture test for example. try to sort your case airflow, e.g rounded IDE cable if they are in the way, winding PSU molex cables not in use, maybe using some braiding etc.
A prescott celeron can hit 3.8 or so with proper cooling and will perform like a 3.2 or so p4. The northwood celerons were very poor overclockers as they used the A core northwood witch at most toped out at 3ghz. Then again they may have used a c series northwood on one and hit 3.8ghz. But thats draw of the luck. In contrast my olde celeron 2.4 barely managed to hit 3ghz at 1.7vcore and two blowers hiting the heatsink and sounding like a vacum cleaner. But it soiunds like you got a d series celeron and thus will experince a way higher oc on it with a good heatsink. my two cent.
I'm building a custom, low-profile case, so I bought a low-profile cooler. I just installed the cooler that came with the CPU, and now it's reading 50 cpu, 28 case with the cover off... Just surfing.
You might want to try flashing the motherboard bios to the latest, sometimes this can make a huge difference to the temp readings, the later the bios, the more accurate, i lost 10 degrees just by updating, still ran at 60 but this was a duron. matt
The board already had the latest bios installed... Woohoo! Just got rid of "What's a Dremel?"! Good thing, since I just bought a new Dremel xpr 400, hehe.
On my prescott core 3.2 HT I had load temps of 68 to 73 (depending on if I was gaming or just FAH) with the stock cooler. I mounted up a ThermalRight XP120 and my temps dropped to a rock steady 47 celsius for load. Now Im messing around with a little OC and Im at 3.71 GHz with a Prime95 full load of 55 celsius. I would try to get your temps down a little more if your going to even attempt an OC.....
Great! I'm gonna go look for that cooler now, LOL. Thanks guys! By the way, just tried BF1942 with the stock cooler, got 61c.
Yeah but the prescott core processor are known to be many furnaces, they will run FAR warmer..........
Which is awfully hot for a processor. Still functional, as the Prescotts also will fully operate at much higher temps, but they standardly run much higher. Just to give you a guage, my A64 3000+ OC'd to 255Mhz fsb, runs at 49* C with the stock cooler.