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Subject: Re: Do they put thermocouples on CPUs?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:52:56 10/25/02

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On October 24, 2002 at 23:24:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 24, 2002 at 12:49:40, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On October 23, 2002 at 22:13:38, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>
>>>Do they put thermocouples on CPUs?  How to tell if CPU getting too hot?  Surely
>>>not by opening up the case and sticking your hand in there?
>>>
>>>Bob D.
>>
>>Some new motherboards come with two thermal sensors and the software to monitor
>>the cpu temp and the system temp.  Thermocouples are not the only way to monitor
>>temp so it could be that or something similiar.
>>Jim
>
>
>My Intel box, with a real intel serverboard, has a lot of sensors.
>
>Thermocouples for the processors, voltage sensors, tachometers on all
>eleven fans, etc...
>
>The 98-104F temps are with crafty running full-bore...
>
>Pv+ is processor voltage, L2v+ is the L2 cache voltage.  The
>other voltages should be pretty obvious.  All the fans (1-11)
>are RPM values.
>
>
>      temp    Pv+   L2v+
>cpu1   98F   +2.5   +2.0
>cpu2   98F   +2.5   +2.0
>cpu3   98F   +2.5   +2.0
>cpu4  104F   +2.5   +2.0
>fans  (1)3180  (2)3000  (3)3180  (4)2640
>(rpm) (5)2760  (6)2880  (7)2970  (8)2670
>      (9)2550 (10)2550 (11)2580
>power +1.5V(+1.5) +2.5V(+2.5) +3.3V(+3.4)
>      +5V(+5.3) +12V(+12.0) -12V(-12.3)


I know you're American (as am I), but I thought CPU temperatures were quoted in
Celsius as a standard.  Somehow it looks strange to see them in Fahrenheit.

Anyway, it looks like 3 of your CPUs are like healthy humans and the 4th one has
a pretty bad fever.



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