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 ?