How hot can Socket A Athlons go?

thealmightyone

thealmightyone

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Got bored at work, so I thouht I'd see how hot my comp was running at. I was rather suprised...



Merged the 2 screenshots together.

What doesnt help is the BIOS being password-protected.
 
Keep in mind many of the socket A Athlon Xps didn't have auto thermal shutdown. There's a very good chance a socket A Athlon Xp could overheat and "burst" or "pop", and burn a hole right through the motherboard as the chip is in pieces.

Also be careful about destroying the cache. It's a known issue that Athlon Xps, if the Vcore is pushed too far, will blow out their cache. I know someone who blew out half of their L2 cache, and never got it back even when back to stock. CPU-Z actually showed it as 128k L2 cache. (I don't think anything happened to the L1).
 
The XP-Mobile's can go to 100C I believe.

The chips themselves do not have an auto-shutdown, but any decent board you have should. I think every board I ever used that was Socket A (epox, ecs, soyo, abit, dfi, etc.) had a thermal shutdown temp you could set.
 
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