Is 50C considered hot? My Athalon64 3200+, which is clocked up just a little to 2.3Ghz sticks around 39-40 degrees for the most part, and gets to around 49-50 when playing things like FEAR or BF2. Is that good, average, too hot? Just wondering, I don't know what to base it off of.
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Anonymous2005-10-22 2:09
My Athlon XP 2000+, in my old shitty case with no ventilation, would idle around 64C, and when I was encoding video, would approach 89C. Around 80C, it would start to slow down. Shut off was 92C, I think, melting was 95C. Once I moved it into a case with proper cooling and heat dissipation, then it wa down to 43C idle, 68C under heavy load.
My Athlon 64 3000+ idles at 28C, and will approach 43C under heavy load. It's awesome.
My laptop is a piece of shit eMachines. Draw your own inferences about it's temperatures.