Re: GKrellM

[Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org>]

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:19:10AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I want to make my computer as quiet as possible and so I kitted it out 
> with those Zalman copper heat-dispersers, one on the CPU and one on the 
> video card, and I ditched the noisy fans.
> 
> Then I decided to keep an eye on the temp in the pc, just in case the 
> zalman heat-dispersers can't cope and it all starts to superheat.
> 
> So my kernel's configured and in the gkrellm config I've got 4 
> temperature sensors and I have no idea what is what (apart from the 
> hard-drive):
> 
> w83627hf-1-0290/temp1 - 37.0C
> w83627hf-1-0290/temp2 - 46.5C
> w83627hf-1-0290/temp3 - 57.0C
> hddtemp/hda - 39.0C

i'd suggset the hottest one is the CPU sensor
temp1 probably is the inside air temperarture
the third sensor you have might be for the northbridge, but i'd suggest
you look into the manual of you mainboard to see where it is.

> 
> can anyone tell me which is which?
just guess :-)
> 
> How about a good idea of what to run to see if I can blast the temp up a 
> bit? I just untarred a 1GB tar file onto the harddrive, but nothing 
> changed temp at all. Although they do fluctuate by 0.5C, possibly randomly.
> 
cpuburn - a collection of programs to put heavy load on CPU

greets
mlo
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