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To: Mr.Kups who wrote (74664)	2/26/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

Can the Pentium handle the heat? Ha, ha. AMD has to overclock and over-volt just to get to the same clock at which the Intel chips run normally and you want to know if the Intel chips can handle the heat. Well, my Celeron 300A overclocked to 450 is currently running at,... let me check,... 109F, according to the temperature probe I made. The MB probe near the processor (built into the Asus P2B) says the MB temp is 88F. This is with my house temp currently 78F (I don't want to turn my AC on yet), one small case intake fan, one small exhaust fan, and the standard small heatsink fan. I've seen the temp bottom out at 104F (monitoring program can't handle a lower processor temp) when my house temp is around 70. I didn't need to jack the voltage. If I was really nuts I could probably set the bus speed to 112 MHz, increase the core voltage, and have a 504 MHz system. Of course, then I'd be punishing my chip the way AMD punishes theirs as shipped.