Hello again, > Hi ! > May I add the response from AMD regarding the difference between the > Core 0 temp and Core 1 temp ? > I quote : > ==================================================================== > En ce qui concerne la diff?rence de temp?rature entre les deux core, il > semblerait que lors du test, un seul des core soit actif car la charge > de travail ne devait pas n?cessiter l activation du deuxieme core. En > effet 17? correspond a peu pres a la temperature de l environement ou` le > PC est plac?. > > En ce qui concerne la difference de temperature annonc? part la carte > mere, il est normal qu elle soit legerement differente car moins > precise. En effet la capteur de temperature du processeur est in?gr? a > celui ci donc plus fiable. > ===================================================================== > As it is in French, I translate it roughly as : "the cause of the > difference is that the second core is not used at all because the > workload is too low. The core 1 temp is about the ambient temp. > Regarding the difference between the temp of the core0 as seen by the > AMD 64 sensor and the Mobo the cause is a difference in precision, the > mobo being less precise/accurate thand the in CPU sensor." Well is the 18C possible? Have you some heatpipes CPU? You may for example load both CPUs running following command 2 times: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null And see what happens. (Of course you need to have the SMP kernel) Rudolf
