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Originally Posted by mattlock
Donald, the Max case temp for your CPU is about 65°c. That's the temp taken from the center of the heat shield, the core temp will actually be higher than that, but the tech docs don't specify the max core temp.
To SMP client would load you at 100%, another option is running 2 instances of Orthos, or 4 instances of Prime95. In both cases you would need to set the CPU affinity. Orthos is probably the easier of the three to setup and run.
The temps you want to record are before and after @ idle and 100% load (this will not hurt CPU. It will throttle down if it gets too hot)
I'll post instructions on running multiple instances of Orthos later tonight. In fact that would be another good article for the forum.
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OK Matt - that will be great. I will happily write it all up as an article complete with screenies and photos etc...
I have emailed the author of CoreTemp explaining what we are doing and pointed him to TSF and this section and threads...
Whatever, I will keep all informed of developments.
Further to my first post in this thread, I have added another thermometer against the case, about 5 inches from the temporary extra fan so that I can record the before/after air temperature being taken in & delivered to the cooling system. If I had another, I would place it at the back to record the exhaust temperatures too....
Yes - I am stating to worry about grinding the living daylights out of my beloved QX6800.....