Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:41 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 Message-ID: <44199E69.8010407@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060316165503.80055.qmail@web60019.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060316165503.80055.qmail@web60019.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter wrote: >The values I'm getting fluctuate wildly. Sometimes with a difference >of 30 degrees after waiting just a couple of seconds. > > That really doesn't sound good to me, but I don't really have enough experience of system building to do more than guess at the cause. I would strongly suspect the heatsink/processor bond but couldn't be sure. I have no idea if the actually monitoring chip could be faulty, for example, or if it could be a BIOS problem (problems related to bad temperature readings certainly *can* exist but fluctuating temps is a bit different). If no-one here can help, maybe try an overclockers forum - just because there tends to be a lot of system building experience there. Maybe ASUS support would help (but I wouldn't hold my breath). As I said, I went for arctic silver with my heatsink, but I got to apply it to clean components and it gets a bit harder if you have to clean the thermal paste off. They do a cleaner as well and had pretty good instructions on their website when I last looked. --Alex
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