a short history about cooling

[o770]

when i first noticed about the OC Forums and started reading about cooling and temp stuff the first thing i have naturally thought about was: gotta low down my temps anyway! that was good cuz i made a better computer from that - and its good have already stopped wishing that!
have only noticed theres no reason to care "so much" when came down my cousins house and went to take a look at his machine - which never stopped bipping when starting: he kept always saying. - lets take a look now into your BIOS, was my suggestion. when i opened the monitoring tab the CPU showed me it was running under 120ºC: its cooler stopped working about six months ago! (when the computer started bipping). the CPU is an intel pentium iii 450 secc2. Of course it could only be some monitoring mistake but his father decided to get another cooler the next day anyway; when i came back there to install it for them. the father said: i got this one, it was the cheaper (and beleive me, here in São Paulo the cheaper cooler youll find out is really crap!). After everything well installed and some better space organization i decided to do inside the case the monitors then showed us 55ºC for the CPU. "Case closed" - no more bips and one really brave CPU i thought.

[.. AE 86 ..]

haha man
was that 120c ?
and are you sure u got a cpu in there and not a toaster :mad: :mad:

[lennytiger]

55C is still a bit hot can you not get a better cooler???

[o770]

Originally posted by lennytiger
55C is still a bit hot can you not get a better cooler???
i said him that nonetheless he didnt ever care at all...

Originally posted by .. AE 86 ..
haha man
was that 120c ?
and are you sure u got a cpu in there and not a toaster :mad: :mad:
...and that was exactly where all my overclocker knowledge suddenly became almost useless. who would ever expect that 120ºC? of course there must be a lot of processors working in the same conditions but people who not even know what BIOS is must be working with them, just like my cousin. how am i ever supposed to explain someone like him 55ºC is dangerous after six months working under 120ºC? anyway, thats why so much attention with that can also becomes useless sometime.
guess what we both decided to do with all that "security" extra temperature! have overclocked its FSB to 133MHz: everything as stable as before (as its possible to be) working under 63ºC for about three months already.

[-=UR=- Ranger]

I never thought a CPU could survive this for longer than some minutes, but MONTHS???!!!