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On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:37:02 -0400 |
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Bob Slawson <bslawson@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Ângelo Miguel Arrifano wrote: |
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> > I made a simple daemon to scale cpu frequency in case temperature exceeds a predefined threshold. |
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> > Although my question is if these temperatures looks correct and I should trust them. |
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> No. These are not _physical_ temperatures and, last time I looked, AMD did not |
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> provide a calibration between these and the real world. The numbers seem to be |
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> at least 15C above a reasonable CPU die cover temperature on my Opteron 250s: |
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> I've seen them hit 80 according to k8temp on a hot day under full load without |
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> throttling back whereas 65 C or so is the recommended limit. |
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> BobS |
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> gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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15C above a reasonable CPU temperature seems alright for me. |
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In that case I wont use the daemon.. And just trust CPU overtemperature protection in case |
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CPU temperature gets too high :D |
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Thanks! |
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PS: For those who might be reading, I'm with a HP dv6535ep laptop. |
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Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX |
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CSE Student at UBI, Portugal |
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