From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:50:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Strange temperature of AMD FX4100 cpu and power consumption Message-Id: <20120908165025.GA31945@roeck-us.net> List-Id: References: <504B7388.8020102@01019freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <504B7388.8020102@01019freenet.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:34:16PM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I'm getting this temperature after more than one hour of activity > (mostly idle, load of the machine is: 0,11, 0,17, 0,21): >=20 > sensors > k10temp-pci-00c3 > Adapter: PCI adapter > temp1: +14.5=B0C (high =3D +70.0=B0C) > (crit =3D +70.0=B0C, hyst =3D +67.0=B0C) >=20 > 14.5=B0C is completely impossible as the surrounding temperature is > > 20=B0C. >=20 >=20 > fam15h_power-pci-00c4 > Adapter: PCI adapter > power1: 85.74 W >=20 > I read about this value, which would be the power consumption of the > CPU. If this would be correct, my cpu wouldn't be a cpu but a light bulb > :-) and the fan would most probably run on maximum speed non stop (which > it doesn't do - it's running on minimum). >=20 If they have a built-in AC unit, both temperature and power consumption wou= ld make sense. Hmm ... maybe I should apply for a patent on that idea :). > CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor > Board: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 > Bios: Award F11 05/17/2012 > Kernel: 3.4.10-1.1-desktop 64 bit (openSUSE) > lmsensors: sensors-3.3.2-55.1.x86_64 >=20 >=20 > Do you need more information about the hardware? Feel free to ask! >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Thanks for any hint, > kind regards, > Andreas Hartmann >=20 Copying the driver maintainers for feedback. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors