Athlon 500 Week 34 Temp Question

[Squeebee]

Hey All;

I am looking at overclocking my system, but before I do, I have a question. I have an Athlon Classic 500, Week 34, running on a FIC SD11 (No FSB control, damn.), and MBM5 is showing 27 degrees Celsius. I was wondering if anyone has any experience as to what a non clocked 500 should be running at, and whether this seems normal. I don't want to overclock this one until I know I have at least a fairly accurate temp to go by so I don't burn it out. The heat plate is only warm to the touch, not hot, so I know it must be running fairly cool, not around 50 degrees anyway...

Squeebee

[OpenFriday]

That is an EXCELLENT temp. im running @2x that. 53C, although im running a P3800....either way your temps are excellent. dont start worrying till you get in the 40's-50's.

[Fiz]

Don't worry about those temps. I had a 600 slot a that ran at about that. when you get to about the mid 50's you should be careful. Until then, enjoy. :-)

[fireball****aka fireball_87]

Squeebee (Mar 09, 2001 05:08 p.m.):
Hey All;

I am looking at overclocking my system, but before I do, I have a question. I have an Athlon Classic 500, Week 34, running on a FIC SD11 (No FSB control, damn.), and MBM5 is showing 27 degrees Celsius. I was wondering if anyone has any experience as to what a non clocked 500 should be running at, and whether this seems normal. I don't want to overclock this one until I know I have at least a fairly accurate temp to go by so I don't burn it out. The heat plate is only warm to the touch, not hot, so I know it must be running fairly cool, not around 50 degrees anyway...

Squeebee

same as them above. i had a sd11 and absulty hated it! it was a verry stable bord, but you couldent even use soft fsb on it. no tweeks at all. o wel;l good luck and try to get a kx133 based bord with some fsb tweeks :) (ex: tyan tintery s2380 or asus k7v)

[Murphy]

Squeebee (Mar 09, 2001 05:08 p.m.):
Hey All;

I am looking at overclocking my system, but before I do, I have a question. I have an Athlon Classic 500, Week 34, running on a FIC SD11 (No FSB control, damn.), and MBM5 is showing 27 degrees Celsius. I was wondering if anyone has any experience as to what a non clocked 500 should be running at, and whether this seems normal. I don't want to overclock this one until I know I have at least a fairly accurate temp to go by so I don't burn it out. The heat plate is only warm to the touch, not hot, so I know it must be running fairly cool, not around 50 degrees anyway...

Squeebee

Hey nice CPU you have there. Mine was a week 42 with 650core and 3.3ns L2cache. Did around 30-35°C not-oc'ed, problem was I didn't have a thermometer until I overclocked. Now it runs @1.8V and 34.1°C (this very moment). Started with a dual fan OEM heatsink, switched to GORB. One piece of advice Don't buy a GORB! It suX. 750MHz at 1.65V (1.68V exact) was 46°C (room about 19°C). I considered this hot and knew that I had to watercool to get 800 stable (with GORB it would hang within 5mins at 1.8V, because of running hot). Now it does and I'm happy :) does 850 at L2cache@2/5xCPU with 1.9V, no less. Absolutely stable of course.

Let me know how you are doing! Succes with oc'ing!
p.s. I measure with a thermistor at the CPU-backside (and you know, backside is not the same as inside CPU!!!), foam insulated.