[ale] athlon temps

[John Wells]

Geoffrey,

It still could be temps.  Check and see if your motherboard reads temp off
the die or if it has an external thermistor.  The die will naturally be a
*lot* higher and more accurate.  The distance can make a difference of 30
degrees or more.  That's why it's so difficult to gauge the true temp.  Up
until the last revisions of the XP motherboards, all had external
thermistors to my knowledge.  My Gigabyte is one of the later models that
reads from the die.

To keep mine in check, I have a Radio Shack outdoor/indoor thermometer
with  a thermistor running directly to the cpu, albeit not on the die.

I'm also surprised that your mb doesn't allow you to set critical shutdown
temps.  Most I've experienced for Athlons do.

When you say it locked up, do you mean full system freeze?

Realistically, I think your temps are in range.

John

Geoffrey said:
> Well, I finally did locate temp info on this processor.  Depending on
> the processor type, it's 80-90C, so my upper end is obviously way too
> low.
>
> The thing that concerns me now though is it did lock up on me yesterday
> once.  After following the temperature and the wrong upper limit, I'm
> obviously focused on the wrong source of the problem.
>
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