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If you came into this forum going to ask this question, please read this first...
In only the direst of situations is any component of your computer under any thermal danger.
Examples include if you lived at all close to the equator, used stock cooling, the equivalent, or less, and run your 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird at full load all day long. (Most modern CPUs have thermal safeguards, if not all). And generally if the ambient temperature of the room your computer is inside exceeds the point in which you start sweating after prolonged inhabitance. This can be easily fixed by opening a window. Sounds like a few people here should try it (since it's the first step in getting out more)
The universal relatively safe temperature that your processor (undoubtedly your hottest component), Intel or AMD, Pentium or Athlon whatever should run under is...
(drumroll please)
60 degrees Celcius or 140 degrees Fahrenheit
Even if you exceed this once in a while it would be OK, but if it was me I would look into cooling it down. Now granted 50C sounds alot safer and more comfortable to me, you can't always keep it around there without spending some extra money. And you can't always spend some extra money
There are simply too many posts asking this same exact question. It was the same way with the Overclocking thread. If I was a moderator I would make this post a READ, delete the violating posts, and shoot the violators a PM with a warning about following the stickies :blackeye:
Thank you for your time everyone. I do hope I won't have to answer another question about this.
In only the direst of situations is any component of your computer under any thermal danger.
Examples include if you lived at all close to the equator, used stock cooling, the equivalent, or less, and run your 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird at full load all day long. (Most modern CPUs have thermal safeguards, if not all). And generally if the ambient temperature of the room your computer is inside exceeds the point in which you start sweating after prolonged inhabitance. This can be easily fixed by opening a window. Sounds like a few people here should try it (since it's the first step in getting out more)
The universal relatively safe temperature that your processor (undoubtedly your hottest component), Intel or AMD, Pentium or Athlon whatever should run under is...
(drumroll please)
60 degrees Celcius or 140 degrees Fahrenheit
Even if you exceed this once in a while it would be OK, but if it was me I would look into cooling it down. Now granted 50C sounds alot safer and more comfortable to me, you can't always keep it around there without spending some extra money. And you can't always spend some extra money
There are simply too many posts asking this same exact question. It was the same way with the Overclocking thread. If I was a moderator I would make this post a READ, delete the violating posts, and shoot the violators a PM with a warning about following the stickies :blackeye:
Thank you for your time everyone. I do hope I won't have to answer another question about this.
