85c too hot for processor ???

I was just checking stats on my motherboard. It is an asus a7n8x. It says it has cpu overheating protection. I went into the bios and sure nuff there was a setting for shutting down the system at a certain temperature.

Problem is the shutdown temperature in the bios can either be toggle to 85c or 95c. Mine was defaulting to 95c so I changed it to 85c.

My question is by the time it hits 85c (185f) will my processor already be fried? I have an Athlon XP 2500. I didn't realize they can get that hot, or can they.

Anyone have any information or suggestions ?

That's too hot and you risk CPU failure.

My 2100+ runs in the mid-50s.

Open up the side of your PC until you can get some better airflow in your case.

Consider switching you HSF to a better one and clean out dust from the fans once in a while. ;)

I agree with adept thats way way too hot
I would say anywhere in the 40's is optimal and I would strive to get there
using both a good HSF by thermaltake or coolermaster and some front and rear good quality case fans

thanks,
My computer doesn't run that hot, but why would they have it set that hot?
I have a better than stock heat sink but it's still not a real good one.

Anyway, I was real surprised that it was set for 85c. To me that is almost no use at all. I just don't understand the logic behind it. And I'm sure it was for 85c or 95c...

So I guess I will have great comfort in knowing my computer will shut down a long time after my cpu is fried........ Go figure...

Frankly I agree thats useless.
Not one of ausu's better ideas
Mine all start at 50C fo5r notification and 60 for shutdown

My 1800XP on an ASUS a7v266-E MB runs an average of 51c to 52c (125F) pretty much all the time as far as I've been able to check .

Mine is set to shut down at 65C and it has only done so when I forgot to plug the pump in. No damage from those events.

Wow thats hot.
Mine is set to shut off @65C too.
It runs in mid 40's @ 2.4Ghz (NO OC)

Whats urs charles?

I'm gonna check in the bios again to be sure there is no way to change the temperature settings. That seems way to high to do any good.

I googled around and I'm pretty sure it default is 95c. They have done tests to see how reliable it is and it does seem to work pretty good. An example of this is when the cpu fan dies...

My house is hard to cool and when I start cooling it down my utility is way up there. So I don't let it run all the time. But I have two XP 2500 with the same ASUS board with different cases. Both usually start out in the hight 30's c and during the heat of the day if left on can go up to 60 or 62c. I gonna pull the sides of them to get more cooler air through. But I'm gonna have to get a good heat sink for both of em.

A bios update may well address this problem.

I tried to upgrade the bios to the latest greatest. The bios upgrade had a fix for certain keyboards. When I updated the bios it wouldn't recognise pressing any keys during boot up.

What I am trying to say is if I hit f8 to go into safe mode it would just keep on sailing along. I also couldn't hit the del key to get into bios to check to see if I had any different options.

It was a mess to back it off. When I tried it would let me saying I already had the latest bios update. I had to do a dos bios update to go back. The windows utility wouldn't let me back out of it. So I will wait till the next bios update comes along and try it.

I checked the bios and it only comes with two temperature setting 85c and 95c. I checked around with google and there were articles testing the shutdown feature. It was successfull shuting down the system. I just wish you could adjust the shutdown temperature. That would make sense..
Oh well.....

I'm running an AthlonXP 2400, I think that's the model. I know it's a 2Ghz. Anyway the processor runs in the high 30's (C). Very rarely does it go over 40.

Have you tried using the Asus BIOS Upgrade Utility to get your board's BIOS up to v. 1008?

I have A Soltek Goldenflame mother board in my other computer thatscurrntly not working but wen it was i got the CPU temp to bout 102 degrees C, i was a amd Athlon Xp M processor still works.
I forgot to plug the fan in for the heatsink and id recently turned off all overheating failsafes lol

Wow! 85c? I know this is overly cautious, but I usually start getting worried when mine gets above 50-53c. The highest it's ever been is 56c and it started having issues at that point. And it usually only reaches those kinds of temps when I'm playing CoH.

You sure thats not a fahrenheit reading? Also, there are two temps to consider, the temp inside the case and the actual cpu temp.