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How heat tolerant are current generation CPUs?
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February 12th, 2015
Bomyne’s question about whether a laptop is overheating or not got me to wondering: are newer CPUs capable of running hotter than their predecessors of a decade or so ago? I remember reading somewhere that CPUs begin to experience thermal failure at a temperature of about 185 degrees Fahrenheit. I agree with this assessment because my former laptop once reached a CPU temperature of 180, and the laptop’s performance really became unstable at that temp.
When I converted the temperature readings shown in the screen shot accompanying the other question, I was shocked to see peak temperature readings above the boiling point of water! Don’t the internal circuit connections in a CPU separate & fail well below those temperatures?
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