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Hello, I recently posted a thread asking about if my t60 got burned out, and I got a bunch of great responces. Now my question is what is your standard acceptable running temperatures.

I use fedora core 6, using the battery and normal unstressful tasks (browsing, reading email, etc), the fan comes on at 49 or 50 and stops at 44 or 43. After a minute and a half or two minutes, the temp is back up to 50.

Plugged in, cores running 100% and fan on, I get about 68.

Are these figures within acceptable bounds? Sorry again for asking stupid repetative questions, I am a total thinkpad newbie (I love them though!!!)

grahamdavis wrote:Hello, I recently posted a thread asking about if my t60 got burned out, and I got a bunch of great responces. Now my question is what is your standard acceptable running temperatures.

I use fedora core 6, using the battery and normal unstressful tasks (browsing, reading email, etc), the fan comes on at 49 or 50 and stops at 44 or 43. After a minute and a half or two minutes, the temp is back up to 50.

Plugged in, cores running 100% and fan on, I get about 68.

Are these figures within acceptable bounds? Sorry again for asking stupid repetative questions, I am a total thinkpad newbie (I love them though!!!)

Honestly, I think you are worrying about nothing. Newer dual core notebooks tend to run hotter than older single core notebooks, but in the end they are engineered for this and unless you are doing something weird with your notebook, I'd say use it and forget about measuring this stuff.

grahamdavis wrote:Are these figures within acceptable bounds? Sorry again for asking stupid repetative questions, I am a total thinkpad newbie (I love them though!!!)

Below 80C, you really don't have any problems -- other than the ThinkPad getting rather hot to touch. Processors etc are designed to run up to 80C, so 68C at 100% CPU utilization is quite OK.

tomh009 wrote:Below 80C, you really don't have any problems -- other than the ThinkPad getting rather hot to touch. Processors etc are designed to run up to 80C, so 68C at 100% CPU utilization is quite OK.

Actually, this is not quite accurate. Intel rates their dual core processors for safe use up to 100C.

grahamdavis, your cpu temp concerns are as valid as getting a sunburn in your basement. Chill (pun intended)

steveg47 wrote:Actually, this is not quite accurate. Intel rates their dual core processors for safe use up to 100C.

I do believe this is correct ... but there are a lot of other components inside a ThinkPad as well, and I'm not sure all of them will run up to 100C.

tomh009 wrote:

steveg47 wrote:Actually, this is not quite accurate. Intel rates their dual core processors for safe use up to 100C.

I do believe this is correct ... but there are a lot of other components inside a ThinkPad as well, and I'm not sure all of them will run up to 100C.

We were discussing CPUs in this thread, not other components weren't we?

steveg47 wrote:We were discussing CPUs in this thread, not other components weren't we?

I think the original poster simply asked about "acceptable running temperatures". By my reckoning, that would include anything and everything inside a ThinkPad.

tomh009 wrote:

steveg47 wrote:We were discussing CPUs in this thread, not other components weren't we?

I think the original poster simply asked about "acceptable running temperatures". By my reckoning, that would include anything and everything inside a ThinkPad.

Everything the original poster stated is consistant with measuring the processor temps, specifically his statement "Plugged in, cores running 100% and fan on, I get about 68."

steveg47 wrote:Everything the original poster stated is consistant with measuring the processor temps, specifically his statement "Plugged in, cores running 100% and fan on, I get about 68."

So you figure everything would be "cool" running the CPU at 100C, then? Would you happily run your own ThinkPad at that temperature?

tomh009 wrote:

steveg47 wrote:Everything the original poster stated is consistant with measuring the processor temps, specifically his statement "Plugged in, cores running 100% and fan on, I get about 68."

So you figure everything would be "cool" running the CPU at 100C, then? Would you happily run your own ThinkPad at that temperature?

100C not 100%

tomh009 wrote:

steveg47 wrote:Everything the original poster stated is consistant with measuring the processor temps, specifically his statement "Plugged in, cores running 100% and fan on, I get about 68."

So you figure everything would be "cool" running the CPU at 100C, then? Would you happily run your own ThinkPad at that temperature?

You're free to think and say whatever you please.
I addressed my comments specifically to processor temperatures and the unnecessary concern of the original poster.

A bit touchy, aren't we?

tomh009 wrote:A bit touchy, aren't we?

A bit annoying aren't we!

If one can't stand the heat (100C?), one should get out of the kitchen ...

tomh009 wrote:If one can't stand the heat (100C?), one should get out of the kitchen ...

Clever

I'll settle for annoying & clever ... one out of two ain't bad!

tomh009 wrote:I'll settle for annoying & clever ... one out of two ain't bad!

Don't get too excited and I'll try and be as precise as possible for you so there is no misunderstanding:
(note: the above line should be spoken very s l o w l y )
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"You're clever at being annoying"

Now, before a moderator tells us to stop this nonsense you may have the last word, if you must.

steveg47 wrote:Now, before a moderator tells us to stop this nonsense you may have the last word, if you must.

Oh, I would never insist on having the last word!

Wow, lots of replies. Thanks again, and to clear up, yeah, I was talking about the effect of temp on ALL parts of the thinkpad, because I already know the max temp on the core 2 duo, and I was worried about the cpu, the mobo, pcie, etc. Thanks guys!