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Congrats. Sounds like a nice system. I like Dell. I never have
figured out how to read the logs you post for temperature. One
alternate way to read disk temperature, if you're using Ubuntu, is to
go to the disk utility program and pull up the smart data for the drive
(if supported). It will tell the temperature. The command that's run
from this is palimpsest. So that program may be available in other
systems. Also, there is a widget that you can put on one of the Gnome
panels (to the side or top or bottom) which will read the CPU
temperature IF the kernel detected your sensors correctly. It works
fine on my Dell Laptop. It doesn't work on the PC I built unless I
rebuild a kernel module periodically. Lately, on that machine, I just
look at the display on the motherboard for CPU temperature. Either you
or someone else mentioned conky. It might have been Scott or Rich.
Anyway, that will put a bunch of your system stats on your desktop
background.<br>
<br>
In your other post, you replied to my note about an alternate cooler.
Note that the CPU may not overheat until you really push it hard for
some time and the heat accumulates. Dell may have fixed this problem.
The CPU may throttle itself to keep from frying, and just hover around
the maximum temperature. Also, on my MB at least, the CPU cooler
covers up the latch that releases the CPU. So, there is a problem.
The cooler will not want to come off because of the thermal paste, and
you cannot release the chip from the socket. I tried to pull the
cooler up, it tried pull the CPU up, and it eventually came out of the
socket with it still latched, which was not my intent. I must have
moved the unit sideways a few millimeters, because some of the pins
were bent. It took me an hour with a jewelers screwdriver and some
tweezers to restore just a few pins. They are VERY small, and
delicate, and VERY close together. It wouldn't take much to break
them. All that time, I was worried that I'd have to buy a new CPU. I
would suggest readers of this post avoid that particular exercise. I
still don't know how to "properly" get the cooler off the chip.<br>
<br>
Make sure you don't void your warranty by tinkering with things in
there. Good luck with your new system.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
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On 02/12/2011 04:47 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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On 02/11/2011 10:11 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4D55FA48.6090001@c3energy.com" type="cite">I
really like Corsair system components, although there are many other
good brands.<br>
4 - 8 GB of memory and a Corsair TX750W power supply would keep you
humming nicely with room to grow. I THINK advanced video cards can
draw over 150 W. This can be a big power problem, especially if you
gang them together.<br>
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<br>
thanks, I settled on a Dell XPS desktop with AMD chip. I have no idea
what the motherboard is. This will be my 3rd XPS model. I have a 5
year-old laptop & a 6 year old desktop. I got the laptop in Jan.
2006. I thought I got the desktop first, but it might have been later
in 2006, I don't remember..<br>
my current system is showing some age. I am having some video problems,
remnants, dots across some screens, and I'm not sure about my main HD,
according to the sensors, it should be burning up..:<br>
Feb 12 03:42:11 paulandcilla smartd[4499]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART
Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 118 to 116 <br>
Feb 12 03:42:12 paulandcilla smartd[4499]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART
Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 59 to 56 <br>
Feb 12 03:42:12 paulandcilla smartd[4499]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART
Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 41 to 44 <br>
Feb 12 03:42:12 paulandcilla smartd[4499]: Device: /dev/sdb, SMART
Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 61 to 63 <br>
Feb 12 03:42:12 paulandcilla smartd[4499]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART
Usage Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed from 100 to 200 <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
here is basically what I got:AMD Phenom<sup>™</sup> II X6 1045T<span>
(2.7GHz/9MB cache), w/6Gb memory. and </span>1024 (MB) ATI HD5670
Radeon<sup class="trademark">TM video card.<br>
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