On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:33:51 +0200, Johann Klammer
wrote:

The solution for me for now is to keep the doors and windows open and
allow some cool breeze to come in... this will drop the temperature down
to 26 degrees celcius.

So my computer crashing or not crashing depands on 1 or 2 degrees.

Apperently the AMD X2 3800+ CPU is rated at about 85 watts or so...
apperently that's way too hot.

I am not happy with how CPU's are marketted today...


Think I've the same processor. I like mine, though. You should set
it up right in the bios, to where it doesn't shut down. What's AMD's
specs on it: 175F for the lower end of "toasty" ratings? Decent
heatsink -- and 130F can be expected, especially since made back when
they were drawing some wattage.

No sweat.

Gonn'a sell it, too? That's how and where I got mine, too - $10US
Ebay used. Working great no issues for a year or so. Make somebody
happy. Nice case. . .got a CoolerMaster monster CPU/heatsink to go
with it? They're cheap, too.

Only trouble with AMD and temps I had are past - pushing 130F way back
when, well before dual cores.

Thing to watch out for is instability.

Playing hell with, say, archives and compression, when the processor
is introducing errors due to a partially fried brain is the Big No
No. Test everything, for sure, but that processor was blowing away
anything comparable by way of Intel pricing I've yet to run into (skip
the Pentium D architecture and check out present Conroe pricing).