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03-02-10, 11:35 AM #11
Re: Overclocking my CPU
Originally Posted by Imisnew2
There are also at least a dozen other temperatures in your system you would want to monitor. And in a laptop, everything is SO close together than a 5C increase in your CPU will probably equal at least a 5C increase in your HDD temp. And your HDD is one thing that is very heat dependent. An extra 5C could cut its life from 5 years to 2. I say this from years of experience watchings HDD's in external enclosures die young, while outlived by their counterparts inside a well cooled case.
Find out what temp your CPU runs at under full load now. Write that number down, and there is your answer.
In my desktop I can get my CPU 20C hotter than usual while keeping most other temps exactly the same. You can't do that in your laptop.
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03-02-10, 11:41 AM #12
Re: Overclocking my CPU
Veovis... I have other computers (desktops) and was discarding the previous part of this thread (Notebook) and was asking what a safe temperature for my CPU would be...
I read on the 'interwebz' that the "max" for CPU's temp should be 80C... but that's the very max... And that the avg temps for not loaded/loaded should be around 40C/55C.
And my CPU already gets up to 76C under load.... so (47C not loaded)
As for other temps... I'm just trying to educate myself here... so I DON'T do something stupid
Oh, and thanks for the info Veovis... about the enclosure... and the drastic affect heat has on HD's.
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03-02-10, 11:46 AM #13
Re: Overclocking my CPU
Heat is the #1 enemy of all electronics. If you overclocked it at all I would suggest a laptop cooler...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=laptop+cooler
and...
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=265407
If your laptop will even have a BIOS able to be overclocked.
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03-02-10, 11:50 AM #15Re: Overclocking my CPU
Unless the laptop was designed for overclocking, it's generally bad to do so. As Veo has said, laptops have a very distinct heat profile, and the layout and cooling are designed with stock temperatures in mind. A laptop cooler MAY help, but you're running a huge risk of frying the machine.
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03-02-10, 12:04 PM #16
Re: Overclocking my CPU
Originally Posted by Imisnew2
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03-02-10, 12:27 PM #18
Re: Overclocking my CPU
On a C2D I wouldn't want the coretemps exceeding 60-65C at load. Just my preference... some would push further.
I think thermal shutdown happens at 85C for Core2's.
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