Hello all MFM buddies, whassup?
Okay, I have had this PC for like 2-3 years and it's all going good. But suddenly I discovered a problem that my E8400 is running @ 2.40 GHz while it's supposed to run on 3.00 GHz, so I asked and got some answers. I had to tweak something in my bios ( OC FSB to 1333 MHz, something like that ) as my mobo is too damn old that it doesn't officially support this high speed and stuff.
Everything was going cool. But I started looking in google today to check if I was mistaken and if this was too much pressure on my CPU. So I found that it's not very safe to use this high speed on my Old motherboard. I downloaded a temperature-monitoring application. Disabled that option in bios and CPU is back to 2.40 GHz, no probs at all. But I found that my CPU even on this speed doesn't go lower than 60C. I heard it's supposed to go lower than that for safety. On my 2.40 GHz it's like that. On my 3.00 GHz ( after enabling that option in bios ) it goes up to like 70C!
At 2.40 Ghz, is my system safe? And is there a way to safely go to 3.00 Ghz without :
1-Buying a new motherboard
2-Having any little risk of destroying the CPU, I'm short on cash and getting a new CPU will be such a pain in this time for me.
Thanks to everybody, and sorry for being so long in such a thread. Any help is appreciated.
Just to remind, I've had it on 3.00 GHz for like a month or two and it has been good but, after I used Core Temp 0.99.7, it seems like I was doing a big mistake to the rights of my CPU hehe.
P.S : My motherboard is Gigabyte 945PL-S3P ( Damn old I know )
P.S 2 : OMG! After I tried to run PCSX2 0.9.6 and ran a game for some minutes, while playing, I noticed that the temp of both cores goes up to like 73C. Is it because of cooling? Is there something wrong with my computer?
Okay, I have had this PC for like 2-3 years and it's all going good. But suddenly I discovered a problem that my E8400 is running @ 2.40 GHz while it's supposed to run on 3.00 GHz, so I asked and got some answers. I had to tweak something in my bios ( OC FSB to 1333 MHz, something like that ) as my mobo is too damn old that it doesn't officially support this high speed and stuff.
Everything was going cool. But I started looking in google today to check if I was mistaken and if this was too much pressure on my CPU. So I found that it's not very safe to use this high speed on my Old motherboard. I downloaded a temperature-monitoring application. Disabled that option in bios and CPU is back to 2.40 GHz, no probs at all. But I found that my CPU even on this speed doesn't go lower than 60C. I heard it's supposed to go lower than that for safety. On my 2.40 GHz it's like that. On my 3.00 GHz ( after enabling that option in bios ) it goes up to like 70C!
At 2.40 Ghz, is my system safe? And is there a way to safely go to 3.00 Ghz without :
1-Buying a new motherboard
2-Having any little risk of destroying the CPU, I'm short on cash and getting a new CPU will be such a pain in this time for me.
Thanks to everybody, and sorry for being so long in such a thread. Any help is appreciated.
Just to remind, I've had it on 3.00 GHz for like a month or two and it has been good but, after I used Core Temp 0.99.7, it seems like I was doing a big mistake to the rights of my CPU hehe.
P.S : My motherboard is Gigabyte 945PL-S3P ( Damn old I know )
P.S 2 : OMG! After I tried to run PCSX2 0.9.6 and ran a game for some minutes, while playing, I noticed that the temp of both cores goes up to like 73C. Is it because of cooling? Is there something wrong with my computer?