On Sat, October 15, 2005 2:27 pm, 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 > > 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? >
Well, either it isn't seated correctly or doesn't have thermal compound and so the heatsink isn't at the same temperature as the CPU, or the sensor is worthless. My money is on the latter if you're sure you know what you're doing. If you touch something at 65C you're going to notice it FAST - set your kitchen oven to a low setting and try touching the rack (then again, don't - I don't need a lawsuit). If your BIOS can display CPU temp, try looking at it right after a cold start. I would think that shouldn't be that hot until at least a minute or two of real work is done. A few months ago I was having heat issues when I'd make the box work real hard. It would hit about 60C and sometime later it would get flaky. Since then I've tried to avoid over-multitasking. My guess is that a new RAM module I installed is responsible... -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
