On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:32:13PM +0000, Guy Eastwood wrote:
  

   Replying to your own post is probably listed in some psychology book
   somewhere as a loony archetype but I forgot to mention you might want
   to service your CPU fan... suck all the dust n fluff out with a hoover
   or something if it's a bit clogged up. May get you another 2-3 degC
   reduction!
   G
   Guy Eastwood wrote:

That sounds a bit hot to me, I don't like to let mine get past 50degC.
Most semiconductors are (or used to be) rated to 70degC operating
environment but the guts of the CPU will be hotter than the surface.
I've had processors fail to operate beyond 52degC before and if it
should lock up during a write to your disk then you will be in a pickle
potentially.

It'll depend on the CPU as to the heat tolerance but try and get it
cooler than 56C! Get a fan rated for the next faster model of CPU or
something. �7 for a fan vs rebuilding an HD is a bargain in my books :o)

    

A clean out of the heatsink has taken the temperature down to 50
degrees, I think thats about what it was when originally installed.