At school I studied a strange law kwnon also as second thermodynamic principle, which state that heat flows from a higher temberature body to a lower temperature body. For this reason, NEVER should happen that the heatsink has a temperature higher than the CPU (heat source) whichever fan you apply ;-)
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:09:03 +0000, Daniel James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Per, > > > the M/B temp is higher than the CPU temp > > This might be right if your CPU cooling is particularly efficient, or > your box otherwise has inadequate ventilation. I have a heatpipe > cooler on my Opteron, and if I turn up the CPU fan I can make it > cooler than the rest of the system at idle. Right now it's 32C system > and 33C CPU with the fan running quiet. > > 45C does sound way too hot for a motherboard with a CPU at 36C, so in > your case it does sound as though the values have been swapped. > > > and the > > CPU temp is lower than the temp I'm getting from a probe attached > > to the heatsink. > > That's just as it should be, because you want the heat to be rising > into the heatsink and not staying in the CPU core. If it was the > other way round then it would probably mean there was poor contact > between CPU and heatsink, with an air gap where the thermal compound > should be. > > Cheers! > > Daniel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Everithing I tell is always IMHO, if it's not enought please take a visit at http://aquelpaese.da.ru -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]