>> which was fixed by acuuming the dusty Zalman 7000 copper cooler.
>
> That can easily take a couple of degrees off. You may consider
> refreshing the thermal compound as well. My CPU temperature dropped
> 10-12 degrees when I switched to AS5.

Yep. Just ordered a tube from my dealer ;o)

> Depends on the chip and the kind of load (some tasks will heat up
> specific parts of the CPU more). Some start making errors as low as 75
> degrees. Is the 66C at constant high load? How about if you run a CPU
> specific cpuburn?

The 66C is reached after days of constant SETI@home runs.

> And indeed it does. It does it at the temperature that the sensor
> driver is set to, which should be configurable in /etc/sensors.conf. At
> least that's how frequency scaling works on my system. The action is a
> MB BIOS setting, but the temperature level is set with the driver, which
> again gets its settings from the sensors.conf file.

Arh....back to fiddling with .conf files ;o)

My MB is an Asus P4P800. If a sensors.conf file fits one P4P800, will it fit
all?.


/Stig

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