On Sun, 27 May 2018 01:50:35 +0200 (CEST) <mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> i have a machine i just put lm sensors etc. on. xsensors shows > "Vcore" fluctuating between 1.12 and 1.3v. stays at 1.12V when > idling but increases with load. Is this remotely normal behavior for > an athlon chip in a desk top? It's either some sort of throttling or > the Vcore power supply is failing, obviously i'd like to know which. > If it's the power supply i can likely fix it if it needs to be > fixed. Also occurs to me that xsensors could be usefull tracking > down intermittent issues. I used it to monitor a power supply i > wasn't sure about for about a week and it stayed nice. > > mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) > -- > If you have cpu frequency scaling options enabled (in kernel[1]) and Cool'n'Quiet[2] in BIOS, that should be normal. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Power_management/Processor [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%27n%27Quiet
