Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:10:29 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> Cc: David Bushong <david@bushong.net>, R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU voltage (was Re: load spike strangeness) Message-ID: <20000110121029.A2688@evil.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1000109215336.17819A-100000@luna.lyris.com>; from kip@lyris.com on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:57:21AM -0500 References: <20000108223540.A58762@Bushong.NET> <Pine.SOL.3.91.1000109215336.17819A-100000@luna.lyris.com>
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I believe that these readings have to do not only with the uneven voltages in the power supply, b ut also the accuracy of the instruments used to record them. --cokane Kip Macy had the audacity to say: > My machine is not overclocked and I get similar results > > > > Motherboard Temp Voltages > > 26C / 78F / 299K Vcore1: +1.953V > Vcore2: +1.953V > Fan Speeds + 3.3V: +3.375V > + 5.0V: +4.906V > 1: 3013 rpm +12.0V: +12.625V > 2: 3708 rpm -12.0V: -13.562V > 3: 0 rpm - 5.0V: -5.584V > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, David Bushong wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:03:44PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > Awhile back I was having trouble getting through kernel compiles, the > > > machine would reboot during the compile. Someone on some newsgroup said > > > "are you overclocking?". I checked my settings. No, I wasn't > > > overclocking. But my voltage setting looked wrong. It was set at 2.2 > > > volts or whatever and I thought it was supposed to be at 2.4. So I > > > changed it to 2.4. My problem was solved. I was flying through the > > > compiles. Then I was looking through my motherboard manual and realized > > > that it was supposed to be set at 2.2 after all. I prefer it the way it > > > is though. Do you think there is anything wrong with that? > > > > > Hmm. lmmon -i produces some scary results: > > > > Voltages > > > > Vcore1: +2.781V > > Vcore2: +1.469V > > + 3.3V: +3.312V > > + 5.0V: +4.932V > > +12.0V: +12.250V <-- > > -12.0V: -13.125V <-- > > - 5.0V: -5.532V <-- > > > > Those look disturbingly off.. maybe this much drift is common, I don't know. > > However, I never have any problem with the machine, other than this benign > > occurance.. and I do tend to tax it every now and again (couple ports > > building, world building, mp3 encodes, the usual). Ack, can't believe I > > forgot to mention I'm running with soft updates enabled on both drives > > (and root). While I was reading this thread btw, I got another spike, and > > by measuring pixel widths in xload, came up with 30 pixels @ 10 seconds per > > pixel, or 300 seconds, or exactly 5 minutes, which seems awfully round. > > > > Re: overclocking thing: ok, people, I know it's my machine. Take a chill > > pill. I have a very stable CPU, a well ventilated machine, and a jumperless > > motherboard that makes it very easy to switch settings. However, as I have > > said, this machine has been rock solid (except for during a few of those > > sketchy 3.1 release ;) I'll go ahead and try turning off the overclocking > > and see if > > a) it affects the voltage (which does worry me a bit) > > b) I continue to see this load strangeness (I suspect I will) > > > > --David Bushong > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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