Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Thank you Alexander V. Makartsev
> You can monitor and log temperatures and other characteristics with > 'psensor'. > TCase of i5-4570T is only 66.35°C and that means CPU will have to keep > the temperature at that point or lower. > I'd expect an idle temperature of this CPU (without any load) with this > cooling solution will be already around 40-45°C if not higher. This is exactly what I've been thinking as well > By simple launching of any application will make the CPU load to spike > to 100% and heat to build up. seems to be the case > I'm not sure if disabling CPU vulnerabilities mitigations > (meltdown\spectre) would improve the performance of the CPU, allowing it > to go into idle state sooner and this way make it cooler without > resorting to throttling. I was also thinking of this, but I'll try to find a bios update first > Opening the case won't help much and will probably be more harmful if > the cooling solution was designed to make the air flow through the case > and this way cooldown the other components of this unit. thank you for confirming my thoughts > I doubt you can do anything to improve cooling efficiency of this > mini-PC, because its cooling solution is not standard and you can't just > replace it with a more efficient one, like you can with standard PC. > Basically, a small sized cooler fan means it will have higher RPM > (3000+) and high RPM means it will produce a lot of loud noise. We can try to find a low noise one if possible. If not the PC will be replaced.
