Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:24:52 -0400 From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com> To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU temp's on core 2 duo, should they be significantly different? Message-ID: <8cb6106e0806231224vd72b4e6v8470577867c63031@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080623141819.02568dd0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <18527.62508.451095.415706@almost.alerce.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080623141819.02568dd0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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> Not sure if the core duos work the same as older 2 CPU and 4 CPU > motherboards, but there are some BIOS functions that always use the first > CPU. So you never get true SMP because the hardware uses the first CPU more > to service interrupts. True, but interrupt handling and minimal background processing should not cause a core to be 15 C hotter. I guess the original poster can mention the load on both cores (or post a top snapshot) so we can see if there is some load on the system. Josh
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