Maurik

What is the recommended temp for my Barton 2500+?!

Is there a program that i can use to view my cpu temp (not motherboard monitor as it overheats my cpu instantly - dunnoo why!?)

When i overclock my barton im scared it will fry what is the likelyhood of this happening?

(sorry for the noobish questions but im new to o'cing)

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Praetor

Depends. Do you live in the artcic? Tropics? In general 60C is the threshold before you should start worrying.

MBM should not do anything ... are you sure its MBM overheating the system or that its detecting the fact that ur system is overheating? (i.e., what makes you think MBM overheats the system)

Temperature isnt what kills the CPU (in 90% of cases). Its the voltage.

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pak52b

ive got a barton 2500+ OCed to 2800+ and it runs at 49° C (with the stock fan) after playing doom 3 for a couple of hours... so i dunno if thats normal but everyone tells me its good

Praetor

Yeah thats a good temp

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