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Originally Posted by kronchev
bob: your method makes my head hurt  can you explain it a little better? i think youre trying to say you force the temps to never go above whatever you get a bluescreen at, which i get. what i do is just never let the temps go about 40C |
Sorry about the head hurting.
I'm just saying that, even though I don't know what temps my diode readings actually represent, I can find the diode reading that gives me a bluescreen - and then, when I turn my fans down, I never turn them down past the point where, if I were to run at 100%, the reported-by-diode temp goes above 80% of the bluescreen-temp.
I'm pretty sure the diodes aren't even linear (although the diodes on the last few board/cpu combos I've had through here have gone up and down in lockstep with the room temp - i.e. room temp up 3C, idle temp up 3C) but I'm guessing they aren't so non-linear that I have no margin left over if I give myself 20%...
If you don't throttle your fans down, then don't worry about this - I'm fixated on quiet PCs, so it's a problem for
me 