Re: Can't get temperature info from AMD FX-6300 Processor
"Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <[email protected]>
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On 02/16/13 13:47, Oleg Baranov wrote: > On 16.02.2013 23:20, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: <snip> >> someone, mistakenly responding to me, suggested k8temp. I have no >> experience with that, though. >> > > k8temp was superseded by amdtemp in around 8.0-8.1 release (I think). > Though it doesn't matter when both don't work. True, also I didn't know k8temp was superceded by amdtemp, just passing on a suggestion. > I've managed to get some data from onboard ITE chip. Accuracy is a > really big concern and I doubt it can be trusted. But I've measured > idle/load temperatures by software and additionally using infrared > thermometer when I was building the machine and when I see approximately > the same values I'm thinking it is okay. > Another indirect method for me is to monitor fans. When I can see all of > them working fine and environment temperature is known to be within > reasonable range then I can expect CPU temperature to be quite > predictable. To use this you have to trust your thermal compound as may > dry with time loosing its capability to transfer heat effectively. I'd just be happy to get it displaying in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"