52degrees. too hot?

[chickenwuss]

i just overclocked my duron750 to 1ghz(7.5 x 133). System "looks" stable at 1.81v. at idle 42 degrees. at 52 degrees after 3dmark 2001. fan using globalwin fop32-1. now, is this temp too hot? will changing fan to fop38 and adding artic silver2 help? lastly, is there any programs to test the cpu stability?

[Jon]

Not too hot but you could use a little better cooling. Generally we like to keep temps for AMD chips under 50C full load.

An FOP38 is basically the same thing with a Delta fan. I would go with a copper heatsink such as the SK6 or if you want to save a little, the CBG38 fromSVCompucycle.com (http://www.svcompucycle.com) is an excellent heatsink for the price.

The Arctic Silver could only help as well...

As far as stability tests go, if you really want to put it under a strain I would suggest trying SETI, Folding@Home or Prime95. Sandra also has a built in "Burn-in" utility that really stresses pretty well.

[DOCTOR EVIL]

Hey Jon! How many times do you have to smash your head into your monitor's poor little ol screen man? You must have a really big headache after all that head butting! Replacing all of those monitors must be costing you millions!!!:D

[dugans]

Nice oc! 250 free mhz is always a good thing!

I don't track idle temps because my rigs don't idle- ever!

But I run into crashes when I get load temps around 50c.

You don't say what your case temp is, but I'd suggest improving your cooling: case temps between 25 /30 c and load temps 40 /45c are what I try for under load.

Some others around here run at higher temps with no trouble, so the biggest thing is that your pc is stable.

Last note from me: different mobos/sensors and even bios revs can show temps that are vastly different so you can't completely trust the readings without checking another way: I use an indoor/outdoor thermometer for case temps (if thats accurate I'll trust the cpu reading too!) And I also use an infrared for hot
spots.

As far as burn in programs: I'd like to recommend SETI@Home or Folding@Home: both can keep your cpu at load!

Or SiSoft Sandra, which I've used, or Toast, which I haven't used.

[13oots2]

Some motherboads can display higher or lower CPU temps. If I didn't know that my MoBo is infamous for "High" readings, I would be very worried. When you get time add your system details to your sig, it can give us a better idea of any help we can give. A nice OC, wish I could get 250 extra.

[Thelemac]

*Moved to "Cooling"*

[JAWS]

I caught my T-Bird running at 58c running SETI. It was running fine, but that was to hot for me. I dropped the vcore and it's running steady at 48c!