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Q9400 Safe Operating Temps

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What temperature is considered too hot? Speedfan is showing me that my CPU is usually between 25 - 31 C. When should I start to get worried?
 
bbp said:
What temperature is considered too hot? Speedfan is showing me that my CPU is usually between 25 - 31 C. When should I start to get worried?
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Sojuuk said:
70C i would be concerned 80C i would be worried.
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LOL!

If only your temps were 25-31C. I seem to be alone in this view, but no temperature software is in my opinion reliable, precise, or accurate enough to be making some of the judgment calls people make based on it. Touch and hold a heatpipe near the base of the cooler. Add 10C to that in your mind. If that's too hot, and realtemp says "40C", realtemps wrong.

Assuming your ambient is somewhere around 25C, theres no way you can have that small a delta.
 
TJMax for the chip is 100C, I like staying a good deal below TJMax, but you need to worry about load temps, not idle.
 
First of all, use Real Temp 3.0 to monitor your temperatures, to make sure that you get the best possible accuracy. As for safe temperatures, anything below 100C for your CPU is technically fine. However, I would recommend keeping it below 80C.
MrWizard6600 said:
LOL!

If only your temps were 25-31C. I seem to be alone in this view, but no temperature software is in my opinion reliable, precise, or accurate enough to be making some of the judgment calls people make based on it. Touch and hold a heatpipe near the base of the cooler. Add 10C to that in your mind. If that's too hot, and realtemp says "40C", realtemps wrong.
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That makes absolutely no sense. You're saying that taking a guess about what your CPU temperature is based on feeling the heatsink is a more accurate judging method than using software monitoring? That's absurd.
 
I wouldn't feel comfortable running my cpu on anything higher than 70c. I dont like to abuse my computer. There definitely is a difference between overclockign and abusing your hardware. Good luck
 
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