He should have tried a thinner heatsink, or maybe removed layers to the extent the cpu is within the maximuim acceptable heat tolerances! Speaking of which - anyone know which cpu has the highest operational heat tolerance?
Heres a list of common CPU's http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/CPU/CPU Temperatures.shtml I have heard that the Mobile Athlon's have a max temperature of 95c
Via CPU's I don't thinkthe Pentium M's have a higher max temp than the Mobile Athlon's. The only reason they don't need a fan is because they were designed to be low power low,heat chips just like the Via C3. The CPU with the higest standard operating temp is probably the Prescott otherwise know as the Preshot
Isn't the XP1700 a high temp CPU? Those are known to be notoriously hot, even with a top of the line fan and heatsink combo.
My XP1800 (and that of a friend) runs very hot without OC'ing or anything... around 50 C and I got a pretty fat heatsink on it.
Re: Heres a list of common CPU's The Athlon MP's are the dual processor optimised chips if I remember correctly (Multiple not Mobile) :smt024
XP-M's are Athlon Mobile chips. XP-M's are mobile chips. The mobile 2500 is one of the best OC'ing chips at the moment and can get up to 2.6 ghz on air cooling. I have an XP 1700+ and is is no where near that hot at stock speeds on air. Mine idles at 30c and is at 35c on load. Overclocked to 2.255 ghz with 1.57v it idles at 33c and goes to 38-39c at load. I dunno about your temps but you guys must have Palomino's with stock cooling or something.
Hottest CPU I ever saw was the 1400 Athlon, non-XP. The last of the standard Athlon line before Palamino kicked in. I'm sure it's since been "beaten" by the Prescott in terms of heat generation, but at the time there were really no heatsinks that could cope with that beast... in my well-ventilated case with the best air cooling I could find it still went up to 60. I was only partially sad when mine broke (goddamn unprotected AMD CPU dies), and I replaced it with the superior 1700XP.
