On 03/03/2011 1:28 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Wow! Mine has yet to kick off. In fact, with as much SSLT rendering as I
> have been doing lately, the system has remained quite stable. I guess
> the cooling on my PC is working.
>

Remember I'm using a laptop with no extra cooling.

> According to the temp sensors on the die core 0 reached the boiling
> point at some time. (!) I'm guessing I was at work, it was warm outside

>
> I call inaccurate reading. No way it could be that hot and survive. Core
> 0 always seems to read rather hot.
>

Yes I would be suspicious of a reading greater than 100.

> CPU (As a whole, measured from the sensor under the socket) reads a max
> of 88 and a min of 33. That seems reasonable. The heat sink must be
> working, though, because the core temps drop from 90-40 within seconds
> after a render has ended.

Cool down time seems good.

Indecently my dual core is running at about 48 degrees after a couple of 
hours of SSLT. I'll just run my big laptop on 6 cores, just now.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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