A mistake I made a few minutes ago; What NOT to do.

**Venom** · June 14, 2006, 09:47 PM

If your CPU temperature reads 145 degrees Fahrenheit, you overclocked it too far. Don't do that.

**Richard the Lionheart** · June 14, 2006, 09:49 PM

Moved to The Basement.

**Lee1026** · June 14, 2006, 09:50 PM

Pff.... I have reached 149. (I toned it down after that, though)

**Venom** · June 14, 2006, 09:54 PM

Not me, man. I suffered a system crash, and turned it down after that. Fortunately, the temperature rapidly dropped back down, and is currently at a safe 120 degrees. I was running 3dMark when the crash occured.
No damage done, but I'll be more careful next time. I think my heat sink might be clogged up though.

**Incinerate_IV** · June 14, 2006, 10:33 PM

Ahhh another overclocker! Welcome to The Basement!

Anyways, 145F is about 62C right? Thats not that high. Some CPUs can handle higher temperature than others, it all depends on what model you got and a little bit of luck. My Pentium 4 goes up to 65C sometimes on a hot summer day and its doing fine.

By the way, what CPU do you have?

**Venom** · June 14, 2006, 11:18 PM

Yeah, that's 62 degrees Celsius.

I have an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.3 GHz. I haven't tried any overclocking in a while but I want to squeeze maximum performance out of my PC for Quake IV.

**Aristocrat** · June 15, 2006, 12:59 AM

Stock settings on that cpu are fine for Quake 4, if you not getting the performance you want it is probaly a result of your video card or ram not being upto scratch/recommendations.

And for an AMD that is a little hot...not hot enough to kill it but still not good...try to keep it below 60C and it is fine, mine ran at 65C in summer though (till I reseated the heatsink anyway).

**Captian Marcus Cornelius** · June 16, 2006, 12:12 AM

that is running very often I think I have the record here , last year Donald Pentium III 600 Mhz i got some overcloking software, a set the computer overclock that some of absurdly high a number which at the moment has slipped my mind. I proceeded to take apart the computer to see if there's anything I could use,I unplugged the fan and left the computer running and went to have lunch again I came back a one hour later so the computer producing smoke a probably unplugged it and see that the inside of the computer had clearly burned. so I'm not really sure how hot it got a got hot enough to catch the dust on the heatsink on fire so the assuming that's pretty hot. by the way I promptlygot rid of that PC.

**Venom** · June 16, 2006, 01:23 AM

Whoa. I thought if hardware overheated really bad it would just stop working and shut down, but I didn't know it could actually catch fire.

**Incinerate_IV** · June 16, 2006, 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by Venom

Whoa. I thought if hardware overheated really bad it would just stop working and shut down, but I didn't know it could actually catch fire.

Only Intel CPUs thats newer than the Pentium 3 could do that, all the other CPUs don't have any thermal protections at all. When your CPU overheats the system will freeze or keeps rebooting, but the CPU is still running. So without a person to manually turn off the computer, something like that could happen.