[Gllug] Hardware problems

[adam at thebowery.co.uk]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:24:59PM -0000, Jeremy Booth wrote:
> James said:
> > Jon Dye wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyone know what sort of temperature a Athlon 1.3GHz should run at?
> >>
> >
> > My 2100+ runs quite happily at around 45 C, up to 50 C during a heavy
> > quake session. Athlon temperatures seem to vary pretty wildly, but
> > anything under 70 C should be considered OK.
> 
> To prove the point about athlon tempurature inconsistancies, my 2100 would
> go totaly unstable above around 60 C, but was perfectly stable under it, I
> ended up with a coolermaster something or other fan for 2700+ to get the
> temp down, I admit it's quite warm in that room and the system temp was
> often >40C, but athlons do vary temp wise. I also had troubles with my
> athlon 1ghz till I upgraded the HSF, with both of them running i'm sure I
> would break several health and safty rules on noise :)

Many motherboards report the temperature wrong which doesn't help the
situation, I have swapped out motherboards before and seen the reported
temperature drop or rise by up to 20C even after making sure the cpu and hsf
are installed correctly 

Adam
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