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Hardware problems come up here occasionally & experiences deserve swapping. |
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Gentoo involves much exercise of the CPU, sometimes making it sweat a lot. |
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My AMD 2500+ CPU (installed 2003) has been getting hotter & the fan slower. |
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Here in the summer heat of S Ontario, where my workroom is >= 25 C , |
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it had been running at a steady 64 C for a couple of weeks (was 55 C ). |
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When I tried to emerge GCC 4.1.1 , it reached > 75 C & the box died; |
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several attempts, the same auto switch-off. No fans to fit at the store |
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& all available CPUs are 64-bit nowadays, ie build another machine. |
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So I opened up the box, removed the fan & the heat-sink, |
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blew & wiped all the dust away, smeared on some silicon heat-conductor |
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carefully kept from the original package 3 years ago, put it back together. |
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Now the fan is running at 4400 RPM (was 4000 ) & the CPU is at 51 C , |
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rising only to 58 C while successfully compiling GCC 4.1.1 . |
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Hopefully, I won't need to build a new machine till well into 2007 . |
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