Hans, To me it really sounds like you have a power supply that can't delvier as much power as your system needs, if the power supply gets over loaded, the voltages drops and everything in the box gets too low voltages... This in turn results in the components "working harder" to keep "alive" and running. Let's say you have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+, GeForce 3 (and up) graphics, hard drive, CD or DVD, and a couple of memory modules, probably you also have at least a network card, a sound card and perhaps more? Even if those are built onto the mother board they consume almost as much current as their separate alikes. You should *NOT* have a power supply that delivers anything *LESS* than 350 Watts of total power for such a system! Hope you gets rid of the heat... Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: H du Plooy [mailto:linuser@ananzi.co.za] Skickat: den 13 januari 2003 09:49 Till: suse-linux-e@suse.com Ämne: [SLE] CPU temperature monitor - solved Thanks to all who replied - between sensors and gkrellm I've got what I need. For what it's worth, I searched around for discussions and info on how hot the AthlonXP CPU are supposed to / can operate. 60s seems to be high, but nothing to write home about. Some people report avarage temperatures of low to mid 70s, mostly on overclocked systems, without any problems. I suppose that the cpu will be a bit hotter while the cpu-compound settles, on because the first day it ran really hot, but since last night it's remaind reasonably low - 48 degrees when the machine is idle. It goes up to about 52 when I do stuff like format a stiffy, open apps, copy stuff around, and then up to about 56 if I do cpu intensive stuff - mpeg compression, games. This seems reasonable. I guess I know I'm safe as long as the machine remains stable. Apparently the Athlons can operate at up to 90 degrees too. It's really annoying that almost everything get so hot. The cpu and graphics card I understand, but why the hard drive (Seagate 40gb, 5400rpm) get so hot is byond me. And this rubber cover that they put around it doesn't help much to keep it cool - if I didn't void the warranty by taking it off, I would have done so a long time ago. For now the case remains open - this seems to be the best way... Thanks Hans == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com