[mythtv-users] How hot is your system?

[David]

Per Åge Sørvik wrote:

> 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.
>
If you want to share some more details then have a look at 
ww.mythtv.info - there's a bit on cooling/cases etc
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/HardWare/CoolingQuietlyHowTo

David