On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:37:02 -0400
Bob Slawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ângelo Miguel Arrifano wrote:
> 
> > I made a simple daemon to scale cpu frequency in case temperature exceeds a 
> > predefined threshold.
> > Although my question is if these temperatures looks correct and I should 
> > trust them.
> 
> No.  These are not _physical_ temperatures and, last time I looked, AMD did 
> not 
> provide a calibration between these and the real world.  The numbers seem to 
> be 
> at least 15C above a reasonable CPU die cover temperature on my Opteron 250s: 
> I've seen them hit 80 according to k8temp on a hot day under full load 
> without 
> throttling back whereas 65 C or so is the recommended limit.
> 
> BobS
> 
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15C above a reasonable CPU temperature seems alright for me.
In that case I wont use the daemon.. And just trust CPU overtemperature 
protection in case
CPU temperature gets too high :D

Thanks!

PS: For those who might be reading, I'm with a HP dv6535ep laptop.
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