Monday, February 20, 2012

Overheating CPUs

Long before your computers' central processor looks as hot as the one at right, it will be causing you problems.

You'll experience weird behavior, crashes, shutdowns (to protect itself) and more.

If you think your computer is crashing due to overheating, try this program and see hot hot things get. http://tinyurl.com/36rkgq

A Mac version for CPU heat monitoring is here http://bit.ly/eNu63

There is no definitive answer on how hot your cpu should run - they all vary quite a lot and even "identical" cpus will run differently to each other at higher temperatures.

The trick is to keep an eye on the temperatures, note elevations and their correspondence to failures.

We can then take some steps to prevent overheating.

A nice article with some more detail can be found here --->

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