On 16/02/14 17:39, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
My computer is working in a relative warm environment. In this room the temperature is an average of 26' C. Since years I keep an eye on the temperatures of the CPU, Motherboard and the rpm of the important coolers.
Having had to go several times today into my bios I discovered there that according to the bios the temperatures of the CPU where over 90' C and during the booting process the start-up speed was reduced.
On my gkrellm which is running on every desktop I have after the booting process a temp from 60' to 65' C.
Assuming that the temperatures may come from the same sensor I wonder which of the two I should trust. Looked into other temperature programs in Yast I found Eeze but found out that I do not even understand their documents. Any other KDE program which I could have a look into? To begin with, unless you are using a refrigerator-type cpu cooler the temperature of your cpu cannot be less than the ambient temperature (in your room, which is, as you claim, 26C).
This of course is for when the cpu has been running for a short time - but the temperature at boot-time should be close to 26C (in your case). In your BIOS you should be able to set alarms which will go off when temperatures for the cpu, etc. reach a certain level. The "critical" temperature for your cpu is determined by the manufacturer's specifications of your cpu. What is that? Do you know? The temperature of the cpu goes up when it is performing tasks for a 'longish' time. For example, I do some cpu-intensive operations on my AMD cpu and when I did I found that the alarm (which I set in the BIOS) would go off. I raised the alarm level from (?) to be just below the max set by the manufacturer and the alarm stopped going off. The question here is: do you know what the specs are for your cpu(s) and are the alarms set correctly in your BIOSes? Now, I have 10 fans cooling the components in my computer box. How many do you have? And are all your fans and their inlets/outlets - as well as the interior/mobo - CLEAN? You can have all the temperature measurements you like in place but if the fans etc which get rid of the heat/transfer heat are covered in gunk and cannot do their job then..... you know the answer. At least once in 3-6 months I pull the whole sheebang apart and clear/clear all the fans and inlets/outlets. BC -- A civilisation is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable. Lauren Smith - 30 January 2014 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org