Re: High CPU temp on Athlon MP w/ recent 2.6 kernels

[Joerg Sommrey <jo@sommrey.de>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:57:54PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >That's not quite my point.  I am not afraid of running my athlons at
> >70C.  I just don't want to.  With Debian Woody they ran at <40C,
> > which is impressing IMHO.  An upgrade to Sarge raised the temp for
> > about 5K, which is still very cool.  This temperature didn't change
> > when I upgraded to an early 2.6 kernel.  Just after 2.6.3-mm4 there
> > was this jump for 10K that I just do not understand.  It doesn't
> > hurt the athlons but seems unnecessary to me.
> >
> >-jo
> 
> 40C?  Shut down for an hour to cool, I've never seen the post on my 
> board show less than 63C by the time it gets to that part of the 
> bios.  I'm running a 1400DX at 1400mhz, so the bios thinks its a 
> 1600DX, and I've got vcore set down to 1.65 volts which helps a bit.
Do you use anything besides a fan to keep your processors cool?  I've no
experience with athlons on UP machines, but amd76x_pm does a good job on
MPs.  I'm not joking: lmsensors sometimes reports 38C on low load.
> 
> Actually, the athlons seem to have a builtin shutdown at 75C, I've hit 
> that once or 3 times when the air under the desk was trapped worse 
> than usual.  Makes for downright ugly reboots...
Seems like athlon 2000+ MPs are more robust.  Playing cube rises
temperature to 78C without any problems.

-jo

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