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sanitarium16

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I managed to overclock my E6850 to 3.6Ghz, Stable. I'm worried about temps under load and the possibility of doing damage. According to Everest Ultimate these are my temps/voltages, im a little nervous at running the chip at 1.4V:
Are they safe?

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6850 3Ghz@3.6Ghz W/Zahlman 9700
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 4GB
Motherboard: Abit ix38 Quad GT

Motherboard: 28C (82F)
CPU: 23C (73F)
CPU 1: 49C (120F)
CPU 2: 51C (124F)
PWM1: 48C (118F)
PWM2:49C (120F)
PWM3:51C (124C)
PWM4: 50C (122F)
PWM5: 48C (118F)
GPU: 51C
GPU Memory: 43C
GPU Ambient: 38C

VOLTAGES:

CPU: 1.40V
+1.5V: 1.50V
+3.3V: 3.30V
+5V: 5.07V
+12V: 12.06V
+12V 8PIN: 12.12V
+5V STANDBY: 5.04V
CPU VTT: 1.21V
NorthBridge Core: 1.25V
SB Core: 1.05V
DIMM: 2.2V (Factory Spec)
DIMM VTT: 1.11V
GPU VCC: 3.23V

PWM: 41.00A
 
1.4 is fine unless it's getting toasty under stress. I've had my AMD 4000 at max voltage before (1.565 in bios, 1.475v in CPU Z)
 
I'm worried about temps under load and the possibility of doing damage.
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Install coretemp (Everest might have the same setting but I dont know) and under options check the "show Deg C until Tjunction" option. This will tell the the number of Deg C until the "trip point" at which the CPU will send out an #PROCHOT interupt requesting the cooling software to spin the fans up to 100%. Now you might not have EIST or etc. even activated but what this does is to give you a "countdown" in Deg C showing you the thermal headroom you have until the CPU itself determines it is getting too hot. For example if when "delta to Tjuncion" reads 10 you have 10C more until the processor considers itself too hot. At 0 the cpu will send out the interupt. At several deg C more hot than that, it will thermally shutdown to prevent damage.

This thermal trip point at which the #PROCHOT is sent out is a factory setting and should superceed any other measurment methods. You can even figure out what it is as Everest and coretemp are reading the same core register and should agree. Fire up both programs and set coretemp to read "delta to Tjunction" and see what Everest reads as core temp. If Everest says the core is at 63C and coretemp says Delta to Tjuncion is 22 your processor is set to send out an "I am too hot" signal at 63 + 22 = 85C.

In theory you could run at 84C and be ok, I would keep at least 10C safety margin.

CPU 1: 49C (120F)
CPU 2: 51C (124F)
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You are nowhere near any danger zone you should see a Delta T of 30C or more.
 
Will overclocking this high on air kill the componetns a lot quicker? I worry about the motherboard dying
 
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