critical temperature reached

Patrick Asselman iceblink at seti.nl
Fri Jan 25 11:06:02 UTC 2013


On 2013-01-24 08:42, Thufir Hawat wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:39:43 -0700, compdoc wrote:
>
>
>> 63C/ 145.4F is a little high but well within limits. If your bios is 
>> set
>> to shutdown at that temp, you could set a higher temp. I've had to 
>> do
>> that many times during winter months since home and office room 
>> temps
>> are higher during this time.
>
>
> Hmm, that's interesting.  What are the hardware risks?
>
> Fire risks?
>
>

No risk of fire.

The integrated circuits on your CPU will degrade faster at higher 
temperatures.
So a higher risk of CPU failure over time for higher temperatures, 
that's all.

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman





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