On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:37, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On 26 May 2003 17:28:51 -0400 > "Mark L. Kahnt" <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > I run lm-sensors on hosehead here, and while the heatsink is smaller > > than I've found on most other systems, this box has been keeping the 800 > > MHz P3 at 112C. I don't feel that is bad, as the screenshot I got of the > > gkrellm sensor monitor indicated that the machine it was snapped from > > ran with a CPU at over 200C. BTW, those are Celsius temperatures, not > > hex values ;) > > I don't know much about optimum temperatures, but that's well above the > boiling point of water. Most other people who post temperatures are running > at about 80C. > > Kevin Okay, this got me wondering, because when lm-sensors first reported 112C, it also indicated anticipated temperature ceilings of 52C, which I thought sounded a bit low. I just spent half an hour digging around on the Intel website, though, and found that the "thermal spec" of P IIIs appears to generally be around 80C, and for P4s, around 72C. The temperature has stayed steady, and the other reported temperatures have stayed consistent, so I concluded that it must be reasonable, even if the chip is not overclocked. My thought is that if the temperature was a problem, it would trend up, both on the CPU and the other box sensors, which doesn't happen, so I have believed (self-deluded) that it was a reasonable temperature. That said, there could be a difference between where the temperature is measured - I don't know exactly where any of the three reported temperatures comes from, and my luck is such that it could well be "innovatively" placed by the maker of my motherboard ;) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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