Just a note too any people building a computer If motherboard monitor or the bios or any other thing closely related with the knowing the CPU temperature, believe what it is telling you. Do not like i did think it is an error and proptly touch the heatsink, my finger promptly stuck to the heatsink, ouch AMD 1400+, connected the CPU fan header offset so only 2 pins were connected, the mothebroard didnt notice the 0 rpm rating, when the screen started going strange and it kept crashing i checked the bios 98 degrees! nah its lying *prods heatsink* *sizzle* Arctic cooling heatsinks with the fan turned off really don't cool that well
heat Last week my cpu got too hot. 112ºC !!! I didn´t know what to do. Then i asked my brother if he had seen something strange when he used it, and guess what he said: He said that he heard a very strange and loud noise coming from the speakers, like an alarm !! I wanted to kill him!!! The CPU is still working, i don´t know why. I think i´m lucky. This happened because the heatsink was very dirty.
Mind you, there's something screwy going on with my MSI motherboard and A64 3700+ chip, for some reason it's always showing 60+ degrees instead of the 30 odd I was getting with a 3200. Asked on here and I got told that some of the older A64 motherboards have a problem with the newer CPU's, but the first thing I did was the 'touch test', didn't feel to hot, but the I stuck my finger int he fan by mistake, ow.
It didn't crash? That's the amazing part. Of course I've had my sensors bug out and say 126c (from 40 something, in under a second). Something about having the abit monitor and MBM open at the same time. That scared the crap out of me the first time (the alarm more than the number really, it was late at night and that system speaker is loud). Then I didn't open the two together again.
I was running a p2 266mhz and it got hot. 120ºF hot. It melted an aluminum heatsink and caught the computer on fire. I got this computer from a freind who worked recycling cardboard. It was in their office and got filled with a cardboard dust. I thought I had cleaned it out well, but the one place i forget, the heatsink. The dust killed the fan, and then ignited. I wish I had taken pictures before I pitched the case. It was really rather funny.
120 deg F? Eh, my machine hits that often, that's not hot at all. And you do realize the melting point of aluminum is 1220 deg F, right? There is no way a CPU could melt aluminum.
Additionally unless there was a spark that was very carefully placed, just the sheet heat of the CPU would not be enough to ignite anything. Paper starts on fire at 451 degrees F.
