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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:40:21 +0530
From:      "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com>
To:        "FreeBSD.org - Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better
Message-ID:  <NGBBJAAOCMHHCAAOGNFMMEMDCFAA.gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020624211811.A335@fishballoon.dyndns.org>

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On Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:48 AM, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > There's a small problem with AMD's, you need a very good
> fan or cooling
> > system.
>
> Well, you need a heatsink that's approved by AMD, which is
> not really a
> problem.  Hopefully your server is going to be located
> somewhere you don't
> care about the noise it makes, so you can put some nice big
> fans in the
> case and everything will be fine.
>
> A lot of recent Athlon boards properly support the chip's
> thermal diode, so
> your system will at least shut down safely if your cooling does die.
>
> That said, my Athlon XP 1800+ box runs perfectly happily and almost
> silently with a 'flower cooler' http://from www.quietpc.com/
> and a couple
> of 1500RPM fans.  IMHO this belief that Athlon systems always
> need extreme
> cooling is often overstated; it's probably the fault of all the
> overclocking nuts trying to squeeze every last MHz out of their
> machines... now you do need some serious cooling to pull that
> kind of thing
> off :-)

I have an Athlon (tbird 850) running on an A7V333. AMD approved
heatsink/fan. The CPU temp often goes to around 85C and the fan is
genarally at around 6000rpm (smashed my finger on it once). is this
normal ? motherboard temp is somewhere at 50C. the temp hike is
generally when i am in freebsd or playing games in win2k. running normal
apps (ie, editors, etc) is generally not a problem. is this a problem
b/w the cpu and the mb


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