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Johnny Cool
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When do you put your WCG agent in snooze or turn if off during very warm or hot days?
----------------------------------------We are experiencing a rather warm/hot summer season here in Colorado. The 'Dog Days of August' are upon us now. Instead of warm/hot days in the morning and afternoons, we now have cool mornings (I take advantage of that by running my PC all night, even though I do not run my PC 24/7) and now, we have these high temps and humidity at night. It's 8:18 PM in Colorado. It's muggy and rather warm. I have an AMD 3500 Newcastle with a decent HSF (Thermaltake). I put my PC in snooze when it hits 53 C. Is that too conservative? I know I need to get a Thermalright for this PC and my backup PC (which has an Intel 3.2 Extreme Edition). So, I realize the variables concerning each CPU. Intel seems to run hotter. With an AMD 3500+, am I being too conservative putting my PC in snooze after getting to 50 C? ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Johnny Cool at Aug 11, 2005 2:28:39 AM] |
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jc should get his thermalright already. i've seen posts 3 months old of you researching it...
 you know what you need to do...  fwiw...prior to getting my xp90c, my 3000+ newcastle ran 24/7 in the low 50s (with the side panel off) just fine...that temp was a bit higher prior to updating bios. |
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Johnny Cool
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jc should get his thermalright already. i've seen posts 3 months old of you researching it... you know what you need to do... fwiw...prior to getting my xp90c, my 3000+ newcastle ran 24/7 in the low 50s (with the side panel off) just fine...that temp was a bit higher prior to updating bios. You 'lil brat! ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Johnny Cool at Aug 11, 2005 2:58:07 AM] |
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jc should get his thermalright already. i've seen posts 3 months old of you researching it... you know what you need to do... My my - someone is on the ball.... need to be more carefull from now on |
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Johnny Cool
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So, how hot do you allow your cpu and mobo get, before you put your WCG client on snooze?
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Johnny --
From what I have seen in the forums, most of us run 24X7 without any problems. Controlling an overheating problem by "snoozing" WCG is a very poor way to address an obvious hardware problem. If you are experiencing high temperatures, I would suggest that first you insure that the dust has been cleaned out of the system. If the problem continues, there are a myriad of suggestions in the forums regarding heat sinks, compounds that can be used to address the problem. There is even one posting that points to the website of a German student that has immersed his entire PC into a fish tank filled with vegetable oil to provide cooling. Search on temperature, heat and similar terms to find these threads. |
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just before it starts to complain
my 3.4 starts making noise at 60degs, with max. @ 70 (any more and the CPU will fry) AMDs never had a problem with heat for - sure vaio has tho check out Intel & AMD's websites for maximum temperatures they are meant to be run at... (might want to google it) |
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It has been a few months since I checked out CPU temperatures on Google. This time http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/CPU/CPU%20Temperatures.shtml came up early and seemed well organized. I also looked at http://www.cpuscorecard.com/cpufaqs/mar00d.htm and clicked down to find my own AMD Athlon XP rated at 85C maximum. The first site recommends keeping it 20 degrees C lower than maximum, which means I should start to worry when my CPU temperature exceeds 65C.
According to Motherboard Monitor my AMD Athlon XP is always in the 50's this summer so I am fine. The Pentium 4 situation is complex since it has SpeedStep built in to cool it down (slow it down) automatically. |
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