Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Aseem Rane spake thusly:
> I am having AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with ASUS A7V8X Mothorboard. I have > an enclosed PC cabinate to prevent my PC from dust. The cabinate > opens only from front when I want to use it. bad idea. > I do face a heating > problem. The temperature easily rises to 60+ oC without any process > using CPU cycles. I use CPUIdle on Windows which does a very good > job to keep the temperature down to 25 oC when CPU is not in > use(even when the room temperature is 30+ oC). Never knew CPUIdle is a fridge. How else would it get temp below room temperature ? > But for long > compilations or while applying Photoshop filters the temperature > rises to 65+ oC also. > > BTW is there any utility on Linux like "CPUIdle" which "cools" the > CPU while not in use? windows 95/98 did not use the HLT instruction. That is why utils like rain, waterfall, cpuidle came about. Linux does this internally. But some utils like lvcool work extremely well with certain chipsets (for whom they are obviously made). -- quasi Utopia Unlimited! -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
