What is the maximum temperature for safe CPU overclocking?

[phibonacci]

What is the highest temperature your CPU has reached? Mine is 150 degrees fahrenheit. This was on an Athlon XP.

 

[russ_watters]

Mine doesn't ever get above 150 when I overclock - 160 is a little high. I have an XP 2500+.

 

[Triss]

62C after a few hours of testing my Pentium D 920 with an ambient temperature of around 28C.

 

[chroot]

150F is absolutely not an issue for modern CPUs. They are designed to be able to operate at upwards of 125C, or 257F.

- Warren

 

[phibonacci]

Mine doesn't ever get above 150 when I overclock - 160 is a little high. I have an XP 2500+.

I also have a Athlon XP 2500 (I believe it is a Barton) and I only reached 150 degrees once. My BIOS released a siren. Because I shut down the machine and it had time to cool, the temperture during runtime may have been higher than 150 degrees.

 

[chroot]

If your BIOS gave you an overtemperature warning, then I'm pretty sure you're talking about 150 degrees Celsisus, not 150 degree Fahrenheit. Be careful with your units.

- Warren

 

[russ_watters]

No, warren - most will have their alarms in the 60-70 celsius range.

Overclockers.com has all sorts of info, including a database of users overclocks. Here is an article, though, on their efforts with a certain processor. They pushed it up incrementally until it failed - at just above 62C.

edit: forgot the link... http://www.overclockers.com/articles1344/

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

What is the highest temperature your CPU has reached? Mine is 150 degrees fahrenheit. This was on an Athlon XP.

I get this heat on my AMD 64 3000+

 

[Pengwuino]

150F is absolutely not an issue for modern CPUs. They are designed to be able to operate at upwards of 125C, or 257F.

- Warren

Hehe i have my CPU near 125 F when doing heavy tasks with my water cooling system

I remember when i was into the whole overclock thing... "hmm... do i have any liquid nitrogen..."

 

[Anttech]

I have a barebone I built myself. My Bios has a bunch of overclocking features built in.

My CPU is set to die aty 60c and my ABS (Anti burning system) is set to let that go to 73c and I have thermal resistor that is sitting at 53c right now. I could overclock the hell out of it, but I don't need to its perfect as it is.