From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Hartmann Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:13:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Strange temperature of AMD FX4100 cpu and power consumption Message-Id: <504E3BEA.3020503@01019freenet.de> List-Id: References: <504B7388.8020102@01019freenet.de> In-Reply-To: <504B7388.8020102@01019freenet.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Andreas Herrmann wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:50:25AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:34:16PM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote: > > [...] > >>> fam15h_power-pci-00c4 >>> Adapter: PCI adapter >>> power1: 85.74 W >>> >>> 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). >>> >> If they have a built-in AC unit, both temperature and power consumption would >> 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 >>> >>> >>> Do you need more information about the hardware? Feel free to ask! > > What's the output of > > # setpci -s 18.5 0xe0.l Hmm, a few hours later and one s2ram / resume cycle in between, the power value is broken again. It's showing constantly power1: 85.74 W in idle mode. setpci now says: 00fff83e (first try) 00fffffe (all other tries) As I did it a few hours ago, I got 003930c9 and the reported values have been between 26 W and 40 W (sounds reasonable to me) - before and after entering setpci. Thanks, kind regards, Andreas Hartmann _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors