[Gllug] PSU voltages

[Nix]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Christian Smith prattled cheerily:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Nix wrote:
>>
>>I mean, the last time I had lm-sensors working on that box (which has an
>>asus motherboard), I don't recall any VCore alarms. But I'm not sure if
>>it's the VCore or the lm-sensors alarm thresholds which have changed...
>>
>>How can we tell what the VCore is meant to be? It's CPU-dependent, isn't
>>it?
> 
> It's CPU dependent. Modern CPUs generally have lower voltages than even
> that, below 2V. As power is related to voltage by a square law, chips
> manufacturers try to push core voltages down as low as possible. Pentium
> Pro was probably the last desktop Intel CPUs with a 3.3V core voltage.
> Pentium MMX and early PII both dropped to 2.8V core voltage, and it's been
> going down ever since. I guess you have an early PII or Pentium MMX?  In
> which case, the CPU core voltage is fine.

Yes, it's a Pentium MMX. It looks like sensors.conf needs re-educating.

(It occurs to me now that googling for `Pentium MMX VCore' would have
found this out without bothering you... oh well, I learned more this way.
Thanks!)

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