On 02/16/2008 02:25 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
It's been too long since I looked at energy, heat, heat conduction and all that (more than 20 years), but the idea of a temperature spike just doesn't sound right in the context of a PC. Like you say, a spike shorter than a second or two just doesn't seem realistic. Something to do with the amount of energy it would take to make a 5degree increase in temperature in such a short timespam.
I don't think it is a temperature spike per se, but getting too close to the tolerance of the transistors inside the CPU. It is possible they they get close enough to the max temps at full load they go into thermal overload and protection circuitry inside the CPU kicks in to protect the processor. All to say it may not be the board but the CPU cooling. I personally thought 65 was too hot. If the max is 70, 65 is too close for comfort for any sustained load. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org