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your highest temps EVAR

Highest one time temp EVAR

  • less than 30c

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • 30-40c

    Votes: 3 1.2%

  • 40-50c

    Votes: 24 9.6%

  • 50-60c

    Votes: 58 23.1%

  • 60-70c

    Votes: 64 25.5%

  • 70-80c

    Votes: 48 19.1%

  • 80c and above (ur kidding me)

    Votes: 53 21.1%
  • Total voters
    251
I got a screenshot of my 35 watt Mobile Barton at 120C+. Of course, it was not nearly that hot - I was running Soltek HM on a DFI board after swapping hard drives out. Still, that's what my hardware monitor told me. My Northwood P4 I had some time ago did get over 80 once when I forgot to screw my Alpha heatsink on it all the way down. Didn't stay there long as it pretty promptly hit my BIOS shut down temp of 85. ;)
 
x800 xt pe with stock cooler at 50 c idle and 120 c + load...i have no idea...and it survived like that for over 3 weeks with heavy load times (8 hours a day)
 
something dodgy happened to me once and motherboard monitor told me that my cpu was running at 984C

:eek:

i was like :eek:
 
My temps are pretty high at times.. Living in Australia with ambient temps getting up to 46'C on some days... 2 BFG geforces hit 75'C+ under load.. and last summer i was at a lan 50 people, smallish room.. no air con, over 40'C ambient outside.. hotter inside and got my 2100+ to 80'C under load with the stock cooler and all fans on maximum speed :/
 
a friend of mine went to jail a few months ago...his gf called me over to check out their computer...she said it had been crashing a lot lately and she didnt know why

i played with it for a min and sure enough it crashed within a couple minutes of running doom3...i got into the bios and the xp1800 palomino was running at 78C! i cleaned the massive amount of dust out of the stock hsf and got it back down to a much better 59C idle..still hot, but not too bad since its not overclocked or anything...needless to say the pc is stable once again...i left her a can of compressed air and showed her how to take the fan off of the heatsink and told her to clean it once a month :D
 
I Ran one of my PCs up to 89C before, trying to do a massive overclock. (trying to break 3GHz with a 3200+ (939)) and damn, just damn, It booted up, and it got through, and it shut down on me after 2 minutes. I had 5 fans running with a stock HS/F. I will never attempt again, until I have some real hardcooling.
 
Over clocked a AMD MP-2400 , I Didnt have a good HSF so I took the stock one off my AMD-2800 to see how she would do, 69C .
 
My 6800OC it hits 75C on load like everyones.
I dont OC my cpu, because I dont have a pci lock (damn you Asus!) and I tried just going to 220fsb, just from F@H, I saw the temps go from their normal 52/53C to 60, 63, 66... and I shut it down :p

edit: This is with AsusProbe, which most people say is 10C above actual temps, so I dont know whats the real highest Ive achieved
 
56c, load stock a64 without fan running, with the fan running its the same temp which confuses me completly. even with no fan heatsink stays cold
 
Oh I have indeed seen heat...
On my last mod, an AMD XP 3000+, forgot to take fan placement into account, and when I first was installing windows it ran up to about 93 C before she crashed. :eek: I freaked out, got a big fan and cooled it that way after letting it rest for awhile. Various fan tweaking later, she ran stably at about 74C idle, 78C in games, though once it got up to 78C it would crash every once in a while ...Ran that way for about 7 months before the technology finally came out to upgrade to the rig in my sig :cool: Passed my beloved mod onto my friend; she needd a good computer to play new games on, and it was more than capable, though for her I fixed it to run much cooler.
 
well, P4 (Northwoods) I've had them to the mid 60C - usually max around 63,64 then get Prime errors.

Last week when I "upgraded" drivers to the latest WHQL Nvidia drivers, my temps shot up from 59C idle to 80C idle..... I didn't even look at the load temps.... (probably 85C!)

I switched to the latest 76.41 (I think) and temps are back down.
 
83C or so, got a bad mount with my waterblock so it didn't have much contact and my pressie was running 3.8Ghz. Gotta love throttling, prolly saved my chip although I shut it down as soon as I saw the temp in bios.
 
ill probly have the highest :p , when going into the BIOS it would detect 99 degrees celcius lol
it was shutting down after 30 seconds. Took off the stock thermal paste and applied new one and temps dropped half of what it was.
(by the way i have a Prescott)
Also, should I mention, it was a fresh build, i ran it for the first time, I wasnt tryign to overclock it or anything..
 
60*C on my P4 3.2ghz Northwood core, took the fan off of my zalman heatsink and put on prime95 and a few other programs to get it to crash, didn't work. Wouldn't go above 60*C.
 
man this poll aint [H]ard at all....my system runs often times for hours on end at about 74-77C and has gotten as high as 85C for an extended period of time.

(Note : I have a P4-m 2.4GHz so it is supposed to get hot :p , it is safe for up to 100C)
 
I dunno how hot this CPU of mine actually got but, as you can see from the damage, the thermal probe I had on it melted and had to later be sandpapered off the waterblock: :eek:

athlon_fried.jpg


The CPU literally popped and you can see the scar on the waterblock where the hot gas was released from the side under pressure. The rubber on the mounting thing melted also, and the araldite I'd used to seal the barbs onto the waterblock had cracked under the heat and leaked.

It was all due to my PC powering up when I wasn't there and the waterpump not being plugged in. Lesson learned...
 
AMD xp 1700+ when I first started in my computer era, my fan on my Thermaltake went ad in the middle of a LAN. So I went to bestbuy and got an Antec super something and when I put it on, the clip wasn't on all the way on so the HS was sitting flush Went into the bios and it said 72 or 77c... I looked at my buddy and said there's no way thats right, I just put a new one on lol. Pulled the plug very quickly and very quickly found my mistake!
 
80C+ heatsink was lose after shipment. forgot to check it first. My xp 2600+ ended up dead =(


 
90c+ athlon 2700XP my damn tower 112 was loose. Ending up chipping the core trying to tighten it.
 
73C with my Socket 939 3000+

It has a XP90 with Panaflo L fan on top, a rear 80mm fan (on 60-->80mm adapter) blowing in and two 80mm fans running at 5 volts for air flow. Normally, I get 34C idle and 42C load with the fan running at 7 volts. I turned the fan off on the XP90 and shut down the rear (intake) fan relying on the 20CFM of air flow through the case. 12 minutes of CPU Burn In later, I was rolling at 73C. Fired up the rear Panaflo L at 7 volts (microATX case) and the temps dropped to 67C under max load.

My BIOS is set to shut down at 75C so that was as high as I could push it, works great still and I know that even if the CPU fan fails...the rear fan blowing in will give it enough air flow to prevent destruction. :cool:
 
My P4 2.4 gig at 3,125Mhz got up to 40C while playing Doom 3 and Half Life 2.

Stock cooling.

I could OC higher but I just bought my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and soon I hope to have a 3500+ Winchester or Venice.
Depending on how expensive the Venice cores will be.

I don't want OC too high on this board cause I will be selling it soon.
 
I've known since I was younger how important cooling is. If I had to, I'd put a box fan next to the case. But those temps would be stable. :) Heh. Keep the chips cool guys!
 
My 3.0c sat at like 75c for about 5 minutes cause my brother is an idiot when it comes to HSF. Now, overclocked 600mhz i sit at about 43 at load lol.
 
Back in the Athlon days, I had a 1.4 that I was installing with a zalman heatsink. The heatsink popped off when I turned it on (still havent figured out why) and the chip promptly got to about 800F. The arctic silver was boiling, smoking, and dripping off.
 
I've taken a 2400+MP up to 85C.
Installed the first CPU & HS and plugged the fan in.
Then installed the second CPU & HS but got distracted and forgot to plug the fan in.
I then ran it for 5 mins like that before I spotted the error.
I was lucky to have a coulpe of 120mm fans at 6v blowing down onto the top of the heatsinks as the CPU survived no problem.

Most of my folding boxen run about 20C above ambient due to the heat they put out.
So when it gets to 35 - 40 C in the cottage they tend to run a bit warm.

Luck........ :D
 
They were over 60 with a Gigabyte board. It had lots of issues, and heat was only one. I RMA'd that POS. They screwed me out of the replacement, though. I learned a good lesson, and that is never buy a Gigabyte.
 
Once my water cooling system failed on me and the reservoir cracked. The reservoir leaked empy overnight while I was asleep. My computer is set for automatic shutdown if the water temps get above 60C. Well, the next morning, there was a huge mess on the top of my computer. I got really lucky nothing was damaged. Anyway, since the water temps were around 60C, that means my proc was likely at least 10C hotter at 70C +, especially since basically nothing was cooling it, most of the water had leaked out. What was even worse was that I didn''t notice the water on top of my computer cause the Koolance unit was blocking the view, so I turned on my computer, and used it for a good 10 minutes. Speedfan was giving me 70+ temps, and at that point I finally realized what had happened...(doh!) Good thing Koolance sent me a new reservoir!
 
90c, duron 800, copper heatsink, computer started screaming at me with overheating alarm. Then again, I WAS trying to make a silent pc without a fan ;)

reached in and touched the hs........never again.
 
228 F (~110 C) according to BIOS hardware monitor. Duron 1200 w/ OEM HSF & Elitegroup mobo. It happened to my Mom's computer about a year ago (fortunately while I was there).

The first symptom was random, repeating garbage playing through the speakers intermittently. It froze up a minute or so after that.. There was a tinge of hot-electronics-smell in the room, so I checked the BIOS screen on reboot. Damn near soiled myself.

The CPU fan was dead, overcome by an army of dust bunnies. A half-clogged, noisy 80mm case fan blowing directly down onto the HSF saved the processor, though that case fan probably had a lot to do with the CPU fan getting clogged up in the first place.

I replaced the CPU fan and all was well. The computer's still in use & 100% stable.
 
130C after my watercooled 3000 @ 3770, 1.6v popped a hose in the middle of the night. This was according to a Koolance case's external temp monitor. I lost so much hardware that night. The processor still worked though...
 
i say at least because i dont know how hot it got, because my bios froze up, then ten seconds later the pc shutdown, i dont doubt it hit 85C
 
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