On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:10:31AM +1200, dionb wrote:
> I am getting the temperature readings from whatever heat-sensors come
> with the motherboard (on a hardware level). At the software level I
> am getting the readings from the BIOS "Hardware monitor" and also a
> windows program that came with my motherboard (haven't managed to get
> lm-sensor's kernel modules to compile, as it's missing some header
> files which appear to come from it's distribution).
It would be worth searching for a little information on your
motherboard, and more specifically it's temperature sensors. Some
motherboards can be inaccurate for a number of reasons; some
temperatures are read from a sensor built into the CPU (probably not on
yours, this is a fairly recent feature for AMD chips), and some read the
temperature from a probe sitting in the CPU socket. These external
probes can be inaccurate, and can also have weird scaling on them thanks
to the manufacturer -- so it's worth trying to learn a little more about
your motherboard's temperature sensing equipment.
> I set the machine (under windows) to running distributed.net's "RC5
> cruncher" and it got up to 56C.
How warm is the room the machine is in? As I said earlier, if you're not
having stability problems, it's not an issue now -- but if the room is
fairly cool, I can see it being a problem in summer if you're getting
the CPU as warm as this.
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