On 26/02/2011 7:39 PM, clipka wrote:

>> Aye, must be. I blame Clipa ;-)
>
> You're making me bigger than I am :-)
>

You're a big man here. :-D

> When I got my i7, I was worried about the high temperatures, too - but I
> was assured by the local PC dealer that this was nothing to worry about,
> since the i7 would self-throttle when in danger of overheating.

Good to know.

> It doesn't - to the contrary, the cooling in my PC is apparently so good
> that the CPU keeps overclocking itself even with POV-Ray blazing away.
>

I've not seen my i7 laptop go into turbo

> Apparently the i7's temperature sensors measure the temperature at
> totally different places than its predecessors. I heard that earlier
> Intel CPU's measure the temperature of (or near) the heatsink, while the
> i7 measures the core temperature.

Any idea what the max working temperature is?

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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