My Celeron 433 runs at ~50degC in the summer, with SETI at home running. Cheapo 
case (only PS fan) and CPU cooler (don't recall specifics, haven't been in 
there in a while). Ran about 5degC hotter when I bumped the FSB to 75MHz. Been 
running nearly 24/7 like that (66 FSB) for ~1-1/2 years without problems. Well, 
no problems that I can pin on hardware anyway.

Quoting Robert Sinland <rsinland at gvtel.com>:

> 
> 
> peter.clark at tides.com wrote:
> > 
> > All this talk of CPU heatsinks and whatnot reminded me that I wanted
> to get
> > lm_snesors up and running. Having done so, I discovered that my Athlon
> 1.2
> > was running at a consistent 50 degrees C, with a system temp of 39
> degrees.
> > I know Athlons are supposed to run hot, but 50? The chip isn't
> overclocked,
> > either, in case you were running. Does anyone know where I can get
> specs
> > for Athlon running temperatures? When is hot too hot?
> >    :Peter
> > 
>   Depends, is that with your CPU at Idle or pegged at 100% for awhile?
> Actally just checked mine again now thats it's been running at various
> loads for about 45 mins and it's at 45-46c and it's a warm humid
> morning.
> I did see a page or two of temps listed at some overclocking site once,
> but it's been several months now.  I think it was someplace on the AMD
> Zone.
>   I was worried about this myself when I would let it run for days on
> end
> using Seti at home at 100%cpu.  Just checked again and mine is at 49c, so
> sounds
> like your probably in the ballpark.
> RS
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