50 'C Safe temp??

[Meqon-Nerd]

I once posted a question about my computers temp to see if it was safe after i overclocked it, anyways i overclocked it even more and its at 50'c and i have no idea if thats killing my computer or not??

Meqon-nerd

[Aristocrat]

If that is when it's idle, then that is high, both my computers are a below 40C on idle (Pentium4 and Athlon 64 cpus) so either way if you stress it too much on max load it is your own fault if everything goes the way of the dodo...and dies.

[Spiff]

Maybe a little high but pretty much every computers different. Its not a dangerous temperature by any means.

If you want to lower it though, you could always get a new heatsink+fan for the processor.

The important thing to note though is what is rises to when playing games. Anything over 70 and id be worried!

[Hadrian]

My Asus mainboard idles at 34c and 72c is my danger line, if and when its crossed, my auto shutdown activates. What temp is 50c, your mainboard, system enviroment, CPU? Is that at idle or underload? My Dell 8400's enviroment temp is 48-51c at idle and it needs another fan big time....

[Meqon-Nerd]

Well right now its 51'C and im currently browsing 5 web pages, writing in wordpad downloading 2 files with dap, Running MSI Fuzzy Logic 4 (To see what my temp is), got media player going, and in the system tray i have, Mcaff, Zonealarm, DAP, Spyware Doctor
Spybot, And ATI Control Panel,....im not sure if thats stressed or not...you make the call?

EDIT: Its my CPU thats at 50'C

[Hadrian]

Yer cool...(no pun intended!)

[Lee1026]

Well, I would run CPU S&M or superpi 32m. That would tell you what you need.

[OTZ]

50 - 60C should be ok. There are ways to make it cooler, but I suspect a lot of home PCs bought from places like Dell, etc, will have higher CPU temps than what an experienced PC user would...

I wouldn't worry too much about the temps, as long as you have a threshold set in your BIOS to shutdown at a certain temp.