Windows 7: Did I OC safetly?

Devlin1888 · 16 Oct 2013

I have an AMD CPU, its not great, gets by with daily browsing and most of todays games at medium settings, ive OC'D to 2ghz, sits around 45C idle and 70-75C under stress, my CPU temp limit is around 115C

Mellon Head · 16 Oct 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by Devlin1888

I have an AMD CPU, its not great, gets by with daily browsing and most of todays games at medium settings, ive OC'D to 2ghz, sits around 45C idle and 70-75C under stress, my CPU temp limit is around 115C

You're OC'ing a laptop? Impressive.

Devlin1888 · 17 Oct 2013

yeah, i have my own type of cooling system, not sitting it on my lap or a desk or anything:) im not sure if the 115C is correct (going by CoreTemp) but alot of people with my APU(CPU) have been able to OC to 2.5ghz im not silly enough to go that far when i dont need to:)

AddRAM · 17 Oct 2013

Type your cpu into google. it should then pull up a list, one of those should be one titled ARK open that and it should show all the specs of the cpu including it`s maximum temprature.

It will look like this.

ARK | Intel® Core?2 Duo Processor E8400 (6M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB)

kLN93 · 17 Oct 2013

Thanks for the help guys, I downloaded HW Monitor and everything seemed fine. I ran a torture test with prime95 and got about 55 degrees under full load and about 20-25 degrees idle. The core clock speeds now are all the same, around 4400mhz.

Britton30 · 17 Oct 2013

This is a nice site for CPU specs too. Type in the CPU in one of the 3 search boxes in the upper right.
It often has more info than the AMD or Intel pages do.
CPU-World: Microprocessor news, benchmarks, information and pictures