[plug] Socket A cooling recommendations

[Craig Ringer]

>>I'm used to working with processors running between 60--80C
> 
> Many CPUs (Athlon XPs, for example) start cooking at 85-90C, while
> others (some of the PIIIs) can fall over at 62C or so.  Depending on
> your CPU, you'll probably want things a little cooler than you're
> currently running  :)

OTOH, I recently had a CPU fan fail in one of the 1 GHz AMD Duron 
machines here at work. The user had commented a couple of days 
previously that the machine seemed quieter, and asked if I'd done 
anything. I assumed that was just a matter of a fan that might've been a 
bit unstable starting to behave - something like that.

I found out why it was quiet 2 days later, when the user commented 
they'd had a couple of crashes. Things smelled hot when I sat down at 
the workstation. Well... the fan had stabilised all right, at about 110 
degrees centigrade (according to BIOS) - fan not spinning at all. It was 
so hot I had to let it stand for 15 minutes before I could safely 
replace the cooler.

The machine is now working happily.

The point here is that while CPUs can be quite fragile, sometimes 
they're shockingly resilient too. I prefer not to push it ;-)

Craig Ringer


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