On Fri, April 13, 2007 1:23 pm, Karl Cunningham wrote:
> If it got to 68C in 46 sec, did the fan come on then and stop it from
> rising more? Unless the temp went up most of the way in <10 seconds it's
> probably not a cpu-to-heatsink problem.
>
The fan was on. It stabilized at 68 C. It didn't decline.
> Temp in /proc could be lying. I've only used sensors. Many times I've
> had to calibrate it though, in sensors.conf, by comparing what sensors
> says to what the bios says under similar conditions: Boot to runlevel 3,
> check sensors, wait for stable temp, reboot and check bios temp, adjust
> sensors.conf and repeat.
>
I don't know sensors
> I do cpu load tests with:
> $ perl -e 'while(1){}'
> Takes 100% of one CPU.
>
... and I'll bet it doesn't overheat your machine.
My concern is the three copper tubes between the heat sink and the
radiator. Someone (Stewart? Andrew?) pointed me to the wikipedia page that
explained that they're a whiz-bang heat transfer thingie. There was an
implication that they have a finite lifetime. A little grease on a
processor is one thing. A fancy proprietaty part is another.
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