What’s the safe temperature for the AMD Athlon 1000MHz/266 ?
I’ve got a Spire 5E27B3 cooler and the CPU is average 43-45 degrees C, but it seems to be overheating, cause sometimes, when I play games, the computer tunes back to the OS.
When I use it at 200mhz bus, it seems to work fine with no problems at average of 36-39 degrees C.
What temperatures have U got?
I dont have a 1GHZ CPU :rolleyes: 43-45 degrees C is ok but should keep it below 40 degrees C if possible…
Start looking in a new place 'cause they run fine up to 60’c so something eles is the prob,
P.S. They melt at 95’c, and in all hostey will run stable up to 75’c but then your pushing it 
I’d make sure your ram is PC133 or PC2100 (SDR SDRAM or DDR SDRAM).
Also what OS and MB you got??
The more info the merrier. 
I have an Athlon PC133 and have 3 fans running, one on the side of the case, one on the motherboard and one on the procesor, having no proble whatsoever.
My (sh*tty) specs are:
ABIT KT7A
AMD Athlon 1GHz/266 with Spire 5E27B3
256 MB PC 133 RAM
8 GB WDC Caviar HDD
Nvidia Riva TNT2 m64 32MB
SB PCI 128
This all is running under Windows Me
Huuummmmm…
In a word windowsME!
Go up to XP or back down to 98.
And you will find that it will work a hole lot better.
Carloz with the system spec you have, you should have no trouble running a copy of Win XP…
Yup. WinME did that a lot to me. What a peice of shit for an OS.
ME=Money Extortion.
Friends don’t let friends use WinME.
My 1.2 Athlon (512mb) running ME cruises along at 29, when it’s seriously under load it peaks at 34. My 400Mhz laptop running XP idles at 34 and peaks at 55.
Carloz, I think you would be better with a bigger hard drive, preferbaly a 20Gb minimum!
I have been told that a computer runs faster with a bigger hard drive.Dunno if its true, but Y only an 8Gb anyway?
I know, that ME is big piece of shit, but it’s the only system that I could install to my comp.
I’m sure, the problem is in the HDD, which I’ll upgrade as quick as possible.
The problem is that I’ve run out of cash
Thanks for all the infos, HardwareForums.com rulezzz.
I know.
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