[CUBE] CPU Temp: How hot is too hot?...

[David Lambourn]

For several years I ran a Sonnet G3 400MHz upgrade in a UMAX tower from 
which I had removed the original three(!) fans - and had modified the 
tower for convection-only cooling. I enquired of Sonnet who told me 
that the top working temperature for the chip was 80 (I assumed, rather 
than was told, Celcius) I used a free piece of software, that came with 
the upgrade, to monitor the temperature which never got above 46 as I 
remember.(I have forgotten the name of the software, but I remember the 
icon being a silhouette of a black cat).

How relevant that tea-time story is to running a G4 at 1.4GHz in a Cube 
- I have been puzzling over for more than a year now!

David


On 20 Mar 2004, at 23:36, Snow White wrote:

> I measure my temp in Celsius and I can tell you anything above 50 C is 
> too hot.  Basically if you can smell the heat then you are around 50 
> or more and it's too much (as far as I am concerned).  Now Apple may 
> have some numbers or maybe XLR8yourmac.com or CubeOwner.com .