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Originally Posted by lusciousness
what is the exact model of your motherbaord and the heatsink that you're using?
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Asus P5LD2 Deluxe, Pentium D 830 with stock Intel heatsink, 800MHz FSB.
I've looked up the thermal parameters for this CPU and it's a little confusing, but I
think this is how it works...
- design target for the CPU is 130W
- real world consumption may go above this
- at 130W max temp for this CPU should be 69.8C
This is based on the CPU casing temperature, not internal die temp which the motherboard utility reports. I found an article which suggests the difference between those two points is about 18C, so that means that in theory I could go up to about 88C reported die temperature before there's potential for serious problems... I wasn't far from that earlier today!
I'm sure I saw another article which says that the cores are individually throttled (clock speed reduced) when they begin to overheat, but I can't find that now.