100°c !

[Gamekiller]

I woke up this morning after making some rigged up fan mods on my old cruncher computer. I turned on the monitor. Loaded up SpeedFan. Fell backwards out of my chair. The core temp was it 100°C! So, without second thought I ripped off the side to find the fan wasn't working! So for at least 8 hours this poor old amd sempron 3000+ was running at 100°C! lol! Wow, anyways, I fixed the problem and the air the fan starting blowing out was scorching hot. I thought I has seriously messed up. The computer was still running wcg at 100% and also running a server program. How's that for stable at high temps?

Anyways, the mod was faulty. I disconnected the cpu fan to put it directly on a 12v source from the psu. The pc wouldn't boot because it said the cpu fan has failed. So I go into bios.. and yep.. locked.. couldn't disable cpu fan check. My case fan's cable was long enough so I hooked it to the cpu connection and then hooked the cpu fan to the 12v source. My wiring to the cpu fan came loose during the night.

I kinda told that story backwords.. I guess...
Anyways, it freaked me out so I thought I would share. =]
Btw, forgot to take a screenshot (it all happened too fast) just incase someone doesn't believe me.

[Blauhung]

haha, that's awesome. I think I saw a bunch of videos on youtube at one point of a bunch of older AMD processors melting through the motherboard when the fan was removed. Something about a lack of a thermal throttling mode.

[Martijn]

I also had a few CPUs (old P3s withouht throttling) run at over 100C for a few hours. One actually hitted 120C. It still works :rofl:

I don't think it's good for the poor CPUs lifetime though...

[Emerica]

Damn, that sucks, good thing you saved the poor thing. The first rig I ever built was a Sempron 3000+ 754... brings back memories.

[Gamekiller]

I'm surprised that the computer didn't even hang. I thought it would at least fail in some way at that temp. =p

[Emerica]

I'm surprised that the computer didn't even hang. I thought it would at least fail in some way at that temp. =p

Yeah that is pretty crazy. I would have thought it would do more than hang, shouldn't it shut down at that temp?

[Mekoa]

100! Eeeek. Dont blame MJ12 ;)

Wonder what would happen if my 6000+ hit 100 degrees....

[Gamekiller]

Yeah that is pretty crazy. I would have thought it would do more than hang, shouldn't it shut down at that temp?


You'd think it would. Could have something to do with what Blauhung said. *shrug*

[STEvil]

haha, that's awesome. I think I saw a bunch of videos on youtube at one point of a bunch of older AMD processors melting through the motherboard when the fan was removed. Something about a lack of a thermal throttling mode.

all fake.

[don_xvi]

The core temp was it 100°C! So, without second thought I ripped off the side to find the fan wasn't working! So for at least 8 hours this poor old amd sempron 3000+ was running at 100°C!
Well if you'd OVERCLOCK the thing you can get more points and use some of that margin !

[[XC] gomeler]

all fake.

Not the ones with the core cracking in half and the core/package shattering and flying out of the socket. I cooked a K6-2 with a 5v line, slowly cooked until I pulled the little Volcano 7 or whatever heatsink off, pop and the magic pixie dust was released.

[Gamekiller]

Well if you'd OVERCLOCK the thing you can get more points and use some of that margin !

I would OC it (wouldn't help much), but the bios is locked. :shrug:

[NickS]

My old E6300 hit 115ºC for Core 0 and (?) for Core 1 one time rofl. Bad mount block.. well, no contact. Was resting on caps around socket. Darn those P5B Deluxes.

[Tortel]

I love my P5B Deluxe, hasnt failed me yet. :)

[[XC] Lead Head]

Old socket A athlons and related were usually rated up to 90*C operating temp, and most Slot A Athlons were rated upto 95*C max operating temp :eek:

[Gamekiller]

Lead Head;2833552']Old socket A athlons and related were usually rated up to 90*C operating temp, and most Slot A Athlons were rated upto 95*C max operating temp :eek:
Wow, really?

I don't think I'd want to keep one around those temps. :p:

[Sparky]

gomeler;2833267']Not the ones with the core cracking in half and the core/package shattering and flying out of the socket. I cooked a K6-2 with a 5v line, slowly cooked until I pulled the little Volcano 7 or whatever heatsink off, pop and the magic pixie dust was released.

Well duh at 5V it's gonna pop ;) :p:

[STEvil]

gomeler;2833267']Not the ones with the core cracking in half and the core/package shattering and flying out of the socket. I cooked a K6-2 with a 5v line, slowly cooked until I pulled the little Volcano 7 or whatever heatsink off, pop and the magic pixie dust was released.

Pop at 5v.

So lets see here.. core/package shattering and flying out of the socket would take what... 220v? I repeat: fake ;)

[Xcel]

Speaking about temperature problems, I had some problem with the fan on my X1950XT yesterday and it went up to 120c before it froze and GPU reset kicked in :ROTF: I only noticed the temps afterwards on the OSD after the reset because I didn't have it enabled before the reset

[Gamekiller]

Good thing you didn't melt it! =]

[Kristall-99]

my socket A 3300+ runs idle at ~ 30 but once i ran it hard, it made its way up to ~52 or so, but that was only 5mins of hard grinding, ill check how far it goes up later tonight when i get back home from school

[Gamekiller]

If you even get cold just turn the cpu fan off. -_-

xD

[[XC] gomeler]

Pop at 5v.

So lets see here.. core/package shattering and flying out of the socket would take what... 220v? I repeat: fake ;)

I'll have to dig around for the pictures of the shattered die and scorched package. Popped like a capacitor with reversed voltages :D