On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 07:27 +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core is running at a constant > 65 degrees Celcius and this figure does not change more than a degree > no matter what is being done, it only increased to 66 degrees C while > doing a compile of xorg, kde and gnome which took a few hours. > > Should I be worried about these figures? The heatsink feels only > slightly warm to the touch and I am sure it is seated correctly so I > wonder if the BIOS is reporting the right temperatures. Does anyone have > the same board that can help me out here?
Are you using any sort of frequency scaling? On my socket 939 3500+, when the CPU is running at full speed it stays around that temperature range, and doesn't really increase much when compiling either. The other temp sensor stays around 35-38C. You might look into cpu frequency scaling using the ondemand governor. I use that here, and right now with my CPU running at 1GHz the temp is floating right 38C (and if I open the windows at night it drops to 35ish), and the other sensor is reporting 31C. I'm using a Soltek K8T939 or some such (VIA based), by the way. Kyle -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
