How Far To OC W/ Stock Cooling

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BlackFox1337

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Hey guys im new to the board. I have an x2 4200+ and it is currently oc'd to 2.5ghz. Im wondering what is the farthest i should go with the stock heatsink and case fans, i will be upgrading to a new heatsink once i get some more cash, along with a couple new case fans. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
download OCCT http://www.ocbase.com/occt.html

its a better way of looking at temps while the CPU is under load

and im in the same situation too. i have a 4200 at 2.53ghz and cant go any higher cuz it just crashes if i do. my CPU reaches up to 46+ and now thats its summer here in vegas i really need a better HSF.
 
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I have a X2 3800 and it's at 61 degrees C right now. That seems high? It's stock and it's in my Sager notebook. Is there anything I should worry about? The exhaust is not hot at all, it accually seems cool.
 
well notebooks always run alot hotter then desktops just because of their lack of cooling but 61 is still very high. mine idles at like 40C but its a intel celeron somethin or other1.5 ghz i think. but i tink 61 is pretty high even for a notebook. is that under load? i sure hope so
 
idahoduk said:
I have a X2 3800 and it's at 61 degrees C right now. That seems high? It's stock and it's in my Sager notebook. Is there anything I should worry about? The exhaust is not hot at all, it accually seems cool.
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cold exhaust means its not getting rid of the heat! lol
61C is near Prime95 FAILING temps. its definitely running extremely hot.
run prime95 and see what the temps are in full load.
edit: you need to run two prime95's for a dual core cpu
 
Something must be wrong. I'm running at 71C at load. Could that be my GPU temp and not my CPU? I loaded a few other programs and they only recognized my HD at 37C. Any ideas?
 
Overclock it until you start being unstable, or yout temps start to get too hot. Until you get there, there is no stopping point. No one can really tell you a "safe" stopping point, becuase it dependson your system and hardware, your ambient temp, etc.
 
I havn't had any trouble so far. It's been the same temp for over a week and I play BF2 all the time. I don't think it could really be that hot for this long and still be running. Whats a 7800GTX in a notebook usually run at?
 
I ran SpeedFan. It registered my Hard Drive at 37C. The only other temp on there is reading 67C. Under chip is says ACPI and it sayd ISA under BUS. The Sensor name is Temp1. Could this be my CPU? It's been running at this temp for a long time you would think my computer would have melted my now.
 
If your running Speedfan they I think your reading your temps wrong unless if you configured them. I thought my proc was running at those temps also but I configured everything by reading thru all the steps and found out my temp was really running at 30-40C. You might wanna check it out again. I'm pretty sure you have your temps all mixed up, so don't trip about it.
 
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