AMD T-bird heat

[pasound]

How hot is too hot? I just finished building an audio-only PC with an AMD T-bird 900, Gigabyte GA71XE4 mobo, IBM IDE deskstar drive, 192M 133 SDRAM, Soundblaster and Alesis ADAT PCI audio cards, ATI PCI video, no modem or network cards. It has fans front and back, and all work. It runs very stable, using 98 standard, stripped down to the minimum, with the full SoundForge/Vegas suites and every DX plugin I know of. Both bios and monitoring s/w says the chip is running at 135-141F. Case temp averages 80-85F. My local PC shop "expert" says the chip is about 10 degrees too hot. Is it?

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[RWSchlatter]

did you check AMDs recommendations in their tech publications at:
http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/index.html#athlon (http://www.winguides.com/external.php?url=http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/index.html#athlon)

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Regards - Richard

[pasound]

Thanks for the info. I had looked through the AMD site before, and your link got me a little closer to an answer. Their pdf's do help, but I finally had to resort to a direct e-mail to their tech support. I couldn't find any "average" operating temp ranges to compare to. All the Intel P2-3-4's and Celerons I've ever built run much cooler - this AMD is a new experience.

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