From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 10:06:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00CA1065676 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:06:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BED8FC12 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BE31FFC1E; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C03D84513; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:27 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Daniel O'Connor" References: <4B2D4B53.1060503@FreeBSD.org> <20091221123912.GB3253@current.Sisis.de> <863a34qxtw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <200912221032.21674.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:06:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200912221032.21674.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> (Daniel O'Connor's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:32:20 +1030") Message-ID: <86d4278grg.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Systems running hot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:06:28 -0000 "Daniel O'Connor" 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