Just asking

[Bubbles]

my friend says his comp got up to 100C and im like ya right it would turn off before it gets that hot and im seeing if thats what does happen so plz tell me it would help alot because 100C is way too hot

[Leeum]

GPU's can reach that temperature fairly easily under heavy load, no way would a CPU survive though. Most motherboards are set to cut the power if the CPU reaches around 60°C.

[Rig]

Yeh, i have seen my gpu hit 100 under load, and standard air cooling.

[Bubbles]

so it can but it usely sould just turn off?

[james]

higher spec laptops (as in high spec, not necessarily up to date) will regularly get 90+C on the cpu if they're good and dusty

iirc current thermal protection on most graphics solutions is ~115C

my intel pentium d will auto-throttle at >75C

and i've had my athlon64 3500+ at ~75C with no problems or any kind of thermal protection seen (running on an sn25p - whilst in transit the case warped slightly and caused the cpu and heatsink to part company somewhat)

a friend of a friend of mine at uni had his pc full of dust, animal hair etc (literally full - it makes some of the pics in the gallery here look clean) and was hitting over 100C on his pentium 4

so basically yeah, no reason why you shouldn't run a modern cpu at >100C however you probably shouldn't expect it to work for long (thermal protection can generally be turned off quite easily)

[Bubbles]

my friend just told me that his comp was full of dust and one bad thing for him is that he cant open his case (he didnt make it) or the warrenty doesnt work no more

[RevolutioN]

my friend just told me that his comp was full of dust and one bad thing for him is that he cant open his case (he didnt make it) or the warrenty doesnt work no more

That won't invalidate the warranty, only if he is removing/modifying the components.. then it will.