How hot is too hot ?

[NascarFool]

I am running at 138 degrees with no load.

Specs:

Athlon 1.33@1.51(default voltage) (10x150)
CoolerMaster EP5-6I11 HSF
300watt Antec PS
2x 128megPC100 CL3 Crucial
1x 128megPC100 CL3 Texas Instrument
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
SB Live X-gamers
Netgear FA310TX NIC
Yamaha 16x IDE burner
Acer 50x IDE CD
WD 20gig ATA66 7200rpm (master)
WD 13.6gig ATA66 5400rpm (slave)
OEM HP floppy drive
Windows 98SE

[PreDatoR]

I would say that is fine. You've got a 1.5 gig chip so its gonna run naturally warm. My 900 when i bump it to 1100 it runs about 42c unloaded and 48 with a load. But it locks up after a couple hours so i keep it at 1050 its running right now at 35C under load and drops to 29-30C unloaded. Same voltage as the other speed. Weird how the temp shoots up that much with 50 more mhz.

[Kazer]

Since I'm running at 1.53Ghz I should know.

Full load 123F or 53C (ACPI disabled)
Idle is 43C (ACPI disabled)
Idle with ACPI enabled is 36C



I also have a crappy heatsink as well. Hopefully my new Millenium heatsink will give waaay better performance.

[VidmanII]

I'm running a 1.33 AXIA-Y @ 1.53 (9.5 x 161 FSB, 1.85v) with a Taisol 760092 hs and Delta 38cfm fan. OS is win98se.

My temps are:

24-26C idle
44-46C full load

I've hacked the BIOS tho using WPCREDIT/WPCRSET changing register 52 to "EB" in order to bring down temps at idle. They stay lower during anything except a full load ( e.g. surfing, low resource progs etc.) Check out how to do this at the KK266R FAQ link in my sig. It works like a charm on the Iwill mobos. You're on your own with any other brands. I take no responsibility if you trash your mobo either.

[Ladies Man]

As long as it's less than 65C then you are fine