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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:27 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Systems running hot?
Message-ID:  <86d4278grg.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200912221032.21674.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> (Daniel O'Connor's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:32:20 %2B1030")
References:  <4B2D4B53.1060503@FreeBSD.org> <20091221123912.GB3253@current.Sisis.de> <863a34qxtw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <200912221032.21674.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> FWIW the Core 2 Duo in my "games" machine which is overclocked from 2.13=
=20
> to 3.06GHz idles at 60C and gets up to 75C when under heavy use. Before=20
> overclocking it used to idle around 50C (that appeared to be the BIOS's=20
> 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
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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