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I've seen reports of people going "over" the tj. max (basically saw a maximum reading of 85C) and their computers didn't shut down. I don't know if they were throttling or not, but no shut downs. Either way you understood what I meant. In all implementations the IA21_THERM_STATUS[22:16] v...

I've seen reports of people going "over" the tj. max (basically saw a maximum reading of 85C) and their computers didn't shut down. I don't know if they were throttling or not, but no shut downs. Either way you understood what I meant. In all implementations the IA21_THERM_STATUS[22:16] v...

Thanks to 'The Coolest' for the clarification about the throttling issue.. Believe me i have read up a lot on this 'Tj Max' issue ..including Core Temp's authors posts to Intel techs on the Intel forums.. ! :idea: A guy @ [H]ardforum mentioned that you should give more importance to the Delta (DTS v...

The new CoreTemp readings for M0 steppings are correct, read this for more info: http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/263821-c2d-quad-temp-guide-computronix.html The Tj max is not 85c for these series of procs, Tj max is the temp the CPU will shutdown at, let your CPU heat up to 85c and you will not...