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this is a question I've been asked a hundred times and based on a quick google search it looks like there are quite a few other folks who want the answer how hot can my PC run before it's not safe anymore okay well let's start with why you would care how hot it runs some lots of reasons high temperatures can cause all kinds of stuff in semiconductors it increases the electrical resistance reducing efficiency it can speed up the degradation of electrical pathways within the component allowing errors that cause data corruption and it can even if the proper safeguards weren't in place caused the low-temperature solder that is sometimes used to completely melt all righty then that's very scary can you give me the answer now - well hold on let's start with some information from the websites of a couple of computer hardware manufacturers you may have heard of the T Junction temperature the point at which it will turn down its own speed to preserve its life for the intel core i7 4770k CPU is a hundred and five degrees Celsius the out of the box standard operating temperature of 95 degrees Celsius for AMD s r9 290x graphics card is to quote AMD perfectly safe while powered on a WD red hard drive can operate it anywhere from 0 to 70 degrees which in their testing produces no unrecoverable errors and a GTX 780 Ti ships at an 80 degree maximum and NVIDIA theoretically allows up to 95 degrees but we found that they actually limit it to around 86 degrees Celsius so those are super scary high temperatures Linus my friend said it should be lower are they misinformed if it says it's okay directly on the manufacturers website why is there so much confusion out there about this because it's not quite that simple unlike the engine in your car which uses a thermostat to maintain itself within a very narrow range usually with between 90 to 100 degrees Celsius most PC parts don't have moving parts that rely on tight manufacturing tolerances and high performance lubricants to keep them functioning so don't they don't really have an optimal operating temperature that means that while the hard drive with moving parts specified a maximum temperature for the other stuff a maximum specified in a minimum is not because you can pretty much run it as low as you want and it'll be happier than a pig and split with that said lower is better if you're taking the appropriate precautions for most people you're not going to want your temperatures to drop any lower than ambient or the temperature of the surrounding air because below that temperature water droplets forming on your components do condensation becomes a major concern water is worse for your hardware than high temperatures so here's the summary first check out the manufacturers product page then take that information with a grain of salt if you're one of those people who believes in taking really good care of your stuff and you want to be sure that your hardware will last and be reliable keep in mind that the way 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