Quote Originally Posted by fornowagain View Post
Personally I'd not want to run in the 90's for long, mine just bsod near a 100C on the stock cooler. But permanent damage if you stay under the TCC, throttling is not even active yet?

http://download.intel.com/design/pro...hts/320834.pdf
I totally agree, I don't think we should panic so much about temps. I think staying around 80 after hours on Prime95 is just plain safe. What's bad about it is, the cpu is consuming tons of energy. But come on, it's 20 below the Tjmax. Above 90 is bad, of course, but I don't think it's degrading, at least not for short periods of time.

Quote Originally Posted by rge View Post
Realtemp is reading the MSR containing tjmax value on core i7's, so no more guessing tjmax since the value is software readable, tjmax on that one is 100C, distance to tjmax plus temp in C. 100 on all ones I have seen so far.

On another note, Intel white paper quote on running your cpu up to TCC max temp:
"With a properly designed and characterized thermal solution, it is anticipated that the TCC would only be activated for very short periods of time when running the most power intensive applications.... An under-designed thermal solution that is not able to prevent excessive activation of the TCC in the anticipated ambient environment may cause a noticeable performance loss, and in some cases may result in a TC that exceeds the specified maximum temperature and may affect the long-term reliability of the processor."
Great. And it's great Tjmax is read via software now, didnt know it! Thanks!

Quote Originally Posted by Classic Satch View Post
I finally found my 24/7 configuration. Thirteen hours of Prime95 is good enough for me to determine stability. Now to try to see how far this thing can actually go. However, it doesn't like the 20x multiplier and the QPI threshold is holding it back. Come on Asus, let me drop that darn QPI multiplier already!
You're on water, right?