Re: [Sheflug] Cpu stuff

[Alan Wilson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,
> 	I'm not sure how you can tell the temperature of your chip one you are
> in linux,...
I am now :)  try lm_sensors http://freshmeat.net/releases/73370/

Cheers

Alan

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:43, Alan Wilson wrote:
> Richard, 
> 	I'm not sure how you can tell the temperature of your chip one you are
> in linux, but don't worry about KDE showing your processer as running at
> 1472 MHz, this is normal for Athlon CPUs.  Basically they are sold on
> their "equvilent performance speed" when compared to Intel, i.e. 1700+
> gives you the same perfomance as a P4 1700, even though it is actually
> running a lot slower.  Its all down to marketing as people just go for
> the number, if they sold it as a 1400 chip everyone would think its a
> slower chip than the intel one, but its not !
> 
> That should be as clear as mud now ! :)
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 18:52, Richard Fletcher wrote:
> > Having got a virtually new system I find in my bios that I can shut down the 
> > system when the CPU reaches a certain temperature, I've never known it to go 
> > over 7 degrees celcius, but it could have done, because I only see the 
> > temperature at boot up, therefore I only see the working temperature after a 
> > reboot. What temperature should I tell the bios to shut down at, and is there 
> > a way of monitoring the temperature once in Linux?
> > 
> > Another thing is I've looked at the information on my CPu as provided by the 
> > Kde preferences->Information->processor app, and it says my Athlon 1700+ is 
> > running at 1472.993 Mhz, am I being cheated out of ~100Mhz?
> > 
> > 
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