Quote Originally Posted by 86 5.0L View Post
your 980x is perfectly safe, 100*C is when thermal protection kicks in(aka clock modulation), if the chip keeps getting hotter(around 135 °C, I believe), it will then trip the THERMTRIP# Signal. These cannot be turned off or messed with by the user.

my i7 920 has cruised at 100*C many times before, its still kicking @ 4.2GHz

Your PC BSOD'ed because it become unstable, not because of any safety measures, it would just lock up if THERMTRIP was activated
I concur that @ 90c your 980x is fine. Here is a video of my 875K running @ 99c for 10 minutes. One question did any water get into the pump? My 355 burned like that, but I had water go down the power lines into the pump. Go to 2:20 in the video


http://www.youtube.com/user/thegcpu?...23/Hx1QwCUZSKg