On 6/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> What has the hdd temp to do with cpu tmeprature?
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> hddtemp and cputemp are completly and totally unrelated.
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First ... thanks for the other tips..
I think you fellows may have this a bit wrong. I have three video
editing desktops all running win xp. On them I use a piece of
software called `Hardware sensors monitor' or Hmonitor.
I've noticed over time (mnths) that when the cpu gets hot, the hdd are
also at elevated temps. Maybe not critical but well above where the
run normally.
This is on three different midtower boxes, so I have surmized that
although the heating of cpu may not be related mechanically to hdd
temp, in fact they rise and fall together due probably to close
proximity and being contained in same box.
I realize this is not a definitive experiment but for my uses it does
work like that.
Just as a note on a possible explanation for your observations in your
Windows boxes:
Most likely (CMIIW), when you notice the CPU and HDD temps rise, you
are actively doing video editing - a CPU and memory *and* hard drive
intensive task. When hard drives are "driven hard", they heat up. When
CPU's are "driven hard", they heat up. If the computers main
functionality is a task that tends to "drive hard" both the CPU and
the hard drive, then yes, you will see a correspondence in the CPU/HDD
temperature patterns. However, this does not mean that you *cannot*
drive the CPU hard without driving the HDD hard, and vice versa - just
because the are both being driven hard when you do video editing does
not mean that they are inextricably linked to each other in workload
and temperature profile.
What operations are being performed on your Gentoo box when you see
these CPU temperature warnings?
-James
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