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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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