Re: CPU heating!

2011-03-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, [ I'm late on thread, so briefly ] If you get desperate overheating & crashes, try eg /usr/sbin/powerd -a min -b min -n min Thats what I'm doing on one box, till I can remove, review/ regrease. One can also observe subsets of values from sysctl -a | grep temp in a while (1)

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Mario Lobo
On Thursday 17 February 2011 21:20:57 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > >> Most computer cases are designed with front-to-back airflow (ie, intake > >> fans in the front, exhaust fans and the PSU in the back) and cool more > >> effectively with the case on >

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: >> Most computer cases are designed with front-to-back airflow (ie, intake fans >> in the front, exhaust fans and the PSU in the back) and cool more >> effectively with the case on > > Well, in my case, with the "BEFORE" situation, if I had the

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Walt Pawley
At 7:53 PM -0300 2/17/11, Mario Lobo wrote: >I replaced the thermal grease (as advised here) with a new one but that didn't >change those figures. I've not attempted to keep up with changes in thermal conductivity of heat sink compounds for something like 40 years. About that time, National Semico

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > Phenom II 955 w/ stock cooler > With the side of the computer case off. [ ...vs... ] > Phenom II 955 w/ a ZALMAN CNPS 10x PERFORMA cooler > With the side of the computer case ON. Um, so you obviously aren't comparing similar circumstances. Most com

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Mario Lobo
On Thursday 17 February 2011 19:59:18 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Um, so you obviously aren't comparing similar circumstances. No! Not at all. > Most computer cases are designed with front-to-back airflow > (ie, intake fans in the front, exhaust fans and the PSU in the back) and > cool more effective

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 13 February 2011 18:52:16 Mario Lobo wrote: > Hi; > > I am following 8-CURRENT AMD64. I have a Phenom II 955. Up to the 3rd week > of January, I had 8-STABLE. Idle CPU temp was 42~44 C (which is already > not excellent, i know) and full load would never go above 60 C (compiling > VBox f

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Brennan
> > Sorry to jump in, yes I would agree about Artic Silver 5, while researching > the topic of thermal compounds I discovered that it takes approx 200 hours > of being used before AS5 will start to operate at its peak. > That's only a little over 8 days... _

RE: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Chris Rees [mailto:utis...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 February 2011 10:11 To: Mario Lobo Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: CPU heating! On 13 Feb 2011 23:06, "Mario Lobo" wrote: > > Hi; > > I am following 8-CURRENT AMD64. I have a Phenom II 955.

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 Feb 2011 15:51, "Mario Lobo" wrote: > > On Monday 14 February 2011 11:32:18 Chris Brennan wrote: > > > You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard > > > and loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. > > > > It even comes in this little push-tube applicator

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 14 February 2011 11:32:18 Chris Brennan wrote: > > You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard > > and loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. > > It even comes in this little push-tube applicator with a plunger ... but it > works great! Arctic Silver

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Brennan
> > You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard and > loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. It even comes in this little push-tube applicator with a plunger ... but it works great! Arctic Silver is probably the best their is, highly recommended.

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 13 Feb 2011 23:06, "Mario Lobo" wrote: > > Hi; > > I am following 8-CURRENT AMD64. I have a Phenom II 955. Up to the 3rd week of > January, I had 8-STABLE. Idle CPU temp was 42~44 C (which is already not > excellent, i know) and full load would never go above 60 C (compiling VBox > from KDE, f