[SLUG] Re: Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-10-18 Thread Russell
thanks for the help this worked, complied easily, and worked a first time, and runs at nice=19. it works for different mobos, though with this via chipset, hums through onboard sound. another prob, when it runs from the command line, it hangs the console! however, it will start as a cron reboot

[SLUG] Re: Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-18 Thread Russell Davie
thanks for that, you have understood exactly my point, surely software cooling is a better engineering solution to reducing heat by getting at the source of the heat, rather than adding more blowers, and other air-conditioning. why resort to expensive hardware cooling when software cooling can

Re: [SLUG] Re: Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-18 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Russell Davie why resort to expensive hardware cooling when software cooling can do a better job? Because when I REALLY hit my CPU, it's gonna need the heat dissipation anyway. I regularly peg my CPU out at 100% for hours on end. Which isn't to say that software cooling isn't good -