Re: Systems running hot?

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:27 +0100
"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au> writes:
> FWIW the Core 2 Duo in my "games" machine which is overclocked from 2.13 
> to 3.06GHz idles at 60C and gets up to 75C when under heavy use. Before 
> overclocking it used to idle around 50C (that appeared to be the BIOS's 
> target temperature)

My E6600s idle at around 35 C in the summer and 25 C in the winter
(they're in an unheated room).

85 C (not 75 C as I wrote earlier - I misremembered) is critical for a
C2D, except for some Xeon-branded models which go up to 100 C.  See the
comments in the coretemp driver.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Tue Dec 22 2009 - 09:06:28 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:59 UTC