Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Homebuilt Mobo bundles

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009 17:57:09 Dale wrote:
>
>> Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>>> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> [OT]
>>>> Why does everyone else have a CPU that is so much hotter than
>>>>
> mine.
>
>>>> Mine has never been over 40C or about 100F and I run folding
>>>>
> with my rig
>
>>>> in my bedroom.  Even back when this rig was new and people had
>>>>
> rigs
>
>>>> close to mine, I still ran cooler.  I'm even air cooled.  Water
>>>>
> and
>
>>>> puters make me nervous.
>>>> [/OT]
>>>>
>>> I'd be mighty suspicious of a incorrect sensor.  There is really
>>>
> no
>
>>> way the cpu itself is never over 102.  Assuming, that is, we're
>>>
> not
>
>>> talking about a `vic-20', or `commodore 64'. and I would not be
>>>
> surprised
>
>>> if those cpus didn't go over 100.
>>>
>> This is a Abit NF7 v2.0 mobo with a AMD 2500+ CPU.  I have even
>>
> checked
>
>> the BIOS temps and they are very close, if not a little lower,
>>
> than what
>
>> Gkrellm reports.  From what I have found with google, no one has
>> reported them to have errors.  I figure the only reason the BIOS
>>
> may be
>
>> a little lower is that it is just starting up.
>>
>> I don't have any reason not to think they are correct.  The temps
>>
> change
>
>> with load and a change in room temp.  I have seen it get close to
>>
> 100F
>
>> when I forgot to leave the A/C on one time.  I do have a large CPU
>> cooler tho.  It's a ThermalTake Volcano 12 with the fans set to
>>
> adjust
>
>> with the temps.
>>
>
> The various CPU temp sensors do measure something the the way they
> rise and fall often correlates to the actual temperature, but not to
> a temperature scale.
>
>

I could pull out my IR temp sensor.  See what it says.  It's accurate to
within 1F or so.

Dale

:-)  :-)