Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-18 Thread Ian Hastie
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:39:05 -0400 (EDT) Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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, Quite possibly. Especially if the chip is getting that hot. Mine only went

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-16 Thread Paolo Ripamonti
On 10/16/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the onboard sensors are crap. You can take a look at bios cpu monitoring suite. On ASUS mobo it shows also cpu core temperature, so you can adjust lm_sensors ranges and multipliers. -- Paolo Ripamonti e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] web-site

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-16 Thread Kyle Liddell
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:58 +1300, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote: For amd64 chips you should be using conservative governor... not ondemand. There are issues with the way the amd64 powernow steping works, which the conservative governor does a better job of handling. What are those issues? I've

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-16 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Kyle Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it just better to use conservative, or will ondemand break hardware stuff? I think I've been using ondemand, and I haven't yet seen icicles forming or anything like that due to insufficient power dissipation. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-16 Thread Richard Freeman
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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-15 Thread Kyle Liddell
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,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:27, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I built myself an AMD64 based system a week ago using the following components: Albatron K8NF4U motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939) 1GB DDR Memory Albatron TC6200 video card Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core