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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:22:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Systems running hot?
Message-ID:  <576433.27739.qm@web65503.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

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=0A=0A--- On Tue, 12/22/09, James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> wrote:=
=0A=0A> From: James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca>=0A> Subject: Re: Syste=
ms running hot?=0A> To: "Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav" <des@des.no>=0A> Received: =
Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 6:21 PM=0A> =0A> =0A> --- On Tue, 12/22/09, Dag=
-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:=0A> =0A> > From: Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgr=
av <des@des.no>=0A> > Subject: Re: Systems running hot?=0A> > To: "James Ph=
illips" <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca>=0A> > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org=0A> >=
 Received: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 5:30 AM=0A> > =0A> > Well, Those Of =
Us [tm] who actually read the docs and=0A> wrote=0A> > the driver=0A> > kno=
w that the temperature is reported by the CPU=0A> itself as=0A> > a 6-bit=
=0A> > number which represents degrees Celsius below the=0A> junction=0A> >=
 temperature.=0A> =0A> Thank-you for the clarification. That does indeed ma=
tch my=0A> experience (but I never trusted the number because the CPU=0A> f=
an does not spin up to full speed even when the CPU is at=0A> its maximum r=
ated (case) temperature). It is the "Core" CPU=0A> temperatures that are ma=
de-up:=0A> =0A> "The reported CPU core temperatures are not comparable=0A> =
across BIOS revisions. The (reported) core temperatures=0A> averaged about =
77C for the 0052 version, about 88C for the=0A> 0059 revision, about 64-68C=
 for the 0065 revision, and about=0A> 86-88C for the the 066 revision. For =
the 0068 revision the=0A> reported avg. core temps were 83-85C (All under t=
he same=0A> Prime95 load.)"=0A> =0A> "Call For testing" - wall of text desc=
ribing my=0A> frustrations with the Cooling of an Intel Board.=0A> http://f=
orums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=3D36&t=3D32700&p=3D1615440#p1615440=0A> =0A>=
 > I have no idea where your 65534 came from, but it=0A> certainly=0A> > di=
dn't come=0A> > from the CPU.=A0 It may have come from an i2c probe=0A> > m=
ounted on the=0A> > motherboard, possibly somewhere near the CPU, or maybe=
=0A> the=0A> > BIOS made it=0A> > up out of thin air, or maybe you were act=
ually reading=0A> the=0A> > clock, not=0A> > the temperature.=0A> > =0A> =
=0A> The BIOS does indeed pull the number out of it's *ss. It is=0A> a comp=
osite number formed from about 3 different sensors on=0A> the motherboard.=
=0A> =0A> Regards,=0A> =0A> James Phillips=0A> =0A> =0A> =0A> =A0 =A0 =A0=
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