From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 21: 9:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jester.ti.com (jester.ti.com [192.94.94.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9AA37B406 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlep8.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.88]) by jester.ti.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5P49gr15690 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:09:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dlep8.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep8.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14256 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:09:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep8.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14197 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:09:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gautham ([192.168.185.126]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03904 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:39:34 +0530 (IST) Reply-To: From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "FreeBSD.org - Questions" Subject: RE: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:40:21 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20020624211811.A335@fishballoon.dyndns.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:48 AM, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > > There's a small problem with AMD's, you need a very good > fan or cooling > > system. > > Well, you need a heatsink that's approved by AMD, which is > not really a > problem. Hopefully your server is going to be located > somewhere you don't > care about the noise it makes, so you can put some nice big > fans in the > case and everything will be fine. > > A lot of recent Athlon boards properly support the chip's > thermal diode, so > your system will at least shut down safely if your cooling does die. > > That said, my Athlon XP 1800+ box runs perfectly happily and almost > silently with a 'flower cooler' http://from www.quietpc.com/ > and a couple > of 1500RPM fans. IMHO this belief that Athlon systems always > need extreme > cooling is often overstated; it's probably the fault of all the > overclocking nuts trying to squeeze every last MHz out of their > machines... now you do need some serious cooling to pull that > kind of thing > off :-) I have an Athlon (tbird 850) running on an A7V333. AMD approved heatsink/fan. The CPU temp often goes to around 85C and the fan is genarally at around 6000rpm (smashed my finger on it once). is this normal ? motherboard temp is somewhere at 50C. the temp hike is generally when i am in freebsd or playing games in win2k. running normal apps (ie, editors, etc) is generally not a problem. is this a problem b/w the cpu and the mb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message