5 Aug
2010
5 Aug
'10
12:44 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:31:49AM +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
If you now start up gkrell, you can see that cpu temperature starts to rise quite rapidly to the high 50s, and the fan gets very loud indeed. I don't know how far it would go, because one of us closes the browser fairly soon when this happens, and eventually the temperature falls to below 50.
Having a poke around on the AMD websites suggest that the max operating temperature for cpus of that vintage is 65C-70C. I'm not convinced that the computer is getting anywhere near overheating (and the bios should be configured to shut the machine down when it reaches the trip point).
If anything, it sounds like the computer is operating perfectly normally.
Adam
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