Overclocking & CPU Heat Re: [plug] My Rave for the day

[Chris Griffin]

What do you use to check/monitor the CPU temp. under Linux?

Regards,
Chris Griffin


At 13:42 7/04/2000 +0800, you wrote:
> > Interesting, Win95 would not run on the O/C Machine, where as
> > I never get so much as a SIG11 or BusFault out of Linux..
>
>Even after running CPU intensive apps for a long time?
>
>Linux calls the halt instruction on CPUs when they are not being used,
>whereas windows just makes the CPU run an idle loop. Compare CPU
>temperatures (on a system with CPU temp sensors) to see what I mean.
>My CPUs run at ~35 degrees under Linux but ~45 or higher under windows.
>
>My G/F complained because our home computer kept crashing under windows,
>whereas I achieved uptimes of weeks under linux. Almost managed to convert
>her to the light side as a result, because she was forced to run nothing
>but linux. Alas, I failed when I found, and fixed the problem - the cpu
>fan had stopped spinning.. However under Linux it wasn't generating enough
>heat to cause a problem.
>
>btw the system was a K5/166 at the time
>
>  - Matt

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