meh, I had once a celeron 1000mhz in a laptop running hotter then that, yes it crashed now and then due to the heat! BUT it went on for years, hard drive broke in the end not CPU!

James, it was an old Celron, probably 180 nm or higher, this is a 90/110 nm CPU ffs

i think its wrong, because even a top of the range DFi overclocking mobo wont let you go that high (at least i dont think so!), but the temp is worrying - grab speedfa

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which CPU's? old Athlon XP's and Duron's cores are made with higher nm (ie 180 nm), so run hotter, but over 60 degrees on an A64 WILL shorten its life

Yeah. Those are the ones.
But the point is still valid, if it works it's not broken. I have seen way too many people be worried about their perfectly working computers because the heat is little high.
Yes, that 90 is really really high. I think it must be a false reading. If it were true the computer would probably be crashing all the time. I haven't seen OP talk about that. So BIOS update probably fixes that.

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James, it was an old Celron, probably 180 nm or higher, this is a 90/110 nm CPU ffs

i think its wrong, because even a top of the range DFi overclocking mobo wont let you go that high (at least i dont think so!), but the temp is worrying - grab speedfa

LOL, ok ok Jack! Go get Jill to carm yourself down, I was only stating a point where someone else said something

But as said, the temp is somewhat worrying!

Well, we now think the bios is faulty and are just plain confused! We may even get a new mobo and case AND athlon 5200+!