Re: [Sheflug] operating temp

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Robert Speed wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >
> > > We've got temperature probes on the heatsinks on the processors in
> > > our servers. We don't allow the heatsink to get above 35 degrees.
> > >
> >
> >  MMmm. My dual PII 400`s never run at less than 35 C!
> 
> Are you taking this reading from the BIOS ?
> We use seperate equipment with probes on the heatsink, I 'think'
> that the BIOS variety take their reading from the CPU instead.
> 

 Yup...that's from BIOS and a wee program called gtkhealth which reads from the
temp probes on my mobo...one under each processor and one away from everything
to take case temp (usually around 17C).

 Baz.
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