[mythtv-users] [slightly OT] anyone got an epia-m9000 with lm_sensors?

[Dirk Aust]

There are some strange things unsing the SMBus on the Epia boards, but on the 
www.viaarena.com page is a driver avaliable, to get the sensors working 
correct.

B.T.W my M10000 shows a BIOS temp. of about 44°C with the CPU fan removed 
because of it's noise and a 80mm fan mounted a few cm over the MB.




Am Montag, 12. Januar 2004 01:41 schrieb Simon Kenyon:
> i'm trying to find out how hot the cpu on an EPIA-M9000 gets when being
> used 100%.
>
> i've modded mine. the cpu fan became very noisy and was about to fail. so i
> replaced it with a zalman VGA cooler. you know the big one that clamps both
> sizes of the board with a heatpipe between the two. i found a site (don't
> know where right now) where someone else showed how to do it. nothing
> ventured, nothing gained.
>
> the upshot was that i ran it for a week (24x7) in a box with no fans
> whatsoever. worked like a charm (apart from mythtv which is driving me nuts
> on this box), with the disk being the only noise from the box. i used a
> maxtor 7000.7, so that was about 19dba. unfortunately, the CPU gets rather
> hot. the bios says 96C; lm_sensors says something crazy like 130C.
>
> i've now got a sharkoon fan resting on top of the heatsink; blowing air
> onto it. the fan is very quiet (only 14dba). the CPU temp now peaks at
> about 86C when there is zero idle time.
>
> i would like to hear of other experiences and also what are reasonable
> temperatures.
>
> thanks
> --
> simon