[mythtv-users] How hot is your system?

[Per Åge Sørvik]

Stephen Tait wrote:

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>
> Some of you might want to consider underclocking the system as well, 
> esp if you're using PVR-250's or similar and don't need honkloads of 
> CPU power (thanks to the evil but great nVidia drivers, MPEG decoding 
> on this machine uses very little CPU) so that you end up with a much 
> cooler chip. I considered doing it myself, but the Myth machine also 
> acts as a distcc and dvdrip node, so I really want as much CPU power 
> as possible. What would be *really* nice would be something a la 
> SpeedStep [TM, R, C, etc] which automatically drops the clock as soon 
> as your system drops below a certain load. IIRC the newer Athlon cores 
> have something like this (Cool 'n' Quiet?), but if anyone has further 
> info on this I'd be much obliged!
>
try http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linux/softwares.html#athcool 
for athlon Cpus, it dropped the cpu temp with 12C on my athloon XP 1600+ 
when idle.

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