Re: Athlon SMP blues - kernels 2.4.[9 13 15-pre4]

[Charles Marslett]

Philippe Amelant wrote:
> 
> le mer 14-11-2001 à 17:15, Alastair Stevens a écrit :
> > > We just finished putting together what was for us a pretty big box using
> > > the Tyan S2460 with 1.4GHz Athlons (not MP) and ran into some troublesome
> > > heating problems.
> >
> > Well, I finally managed to check, and both CPUs are at 76C - sounds
> > quite hot to me. Is that problematic? I've never run these Athlons
> > before, so I'm not sure what's supposed to be normal ;-)
> >
> 
> It's hot i think, my dual celeron hang around 60°C.

I agree, but the Thunderbirds (older 1.4 GHz processors) run hotter than anything
else, so this may be normal.  My dual 1.2 GHz MPs run about 72C, and they are
supposed to be a bit cooler than the Thunderbirds.  I don't have much in the
way of cooling, though....

--Charles 
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