On 14 Jan 99, at 15:53, Brad Loomis wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what the ideal, with in a few degrees, that a PII
> should operate at? I installed Motherboard Monitor,
> http://www.euronet.nl/users/darkside/mbmonitor/ since my MB supports
> such things. It seems to run between 100 and 120 degrees F. I
> searched Intel's site but all I found was a rather elaborate testing
> schema that I'm not quite ready to follow.

  The case temperature alarms that we have deployed come preset to sound
an alarm at 110 F, and to cut power at 118 F.  Note that this is *case*
air temperature -- things are probably a bit warmer right at the CPU.
[Exact position of the LM75/LM78 chip that mbmonitor talks to will
determine how closely measured temperature matches actual CPU
temperature.



David G

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