[GRLUG] Burn up the CPU - NOT LINUX

Josh leapole at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 12:46:09 EST 2012


If you are using linux there are different packages but they most are based
off lm-sensors to get the data from the cpu, motherboard, hard drives, and
graphic cards.  There is a gnome2 panel deal to have it displayed in the
bar on top, or you can also use conky and use scripts to have it displayed
on your desktop.

Now I will say running your computer 100 percent for 2 years will be harder
on the equipment than it just running at 10 percent.  As for how much
different it is, I do not know.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Pentium 4 was the first modern x86 with built-in thermal
> protection reliable and effective enough to save the CPU from damaging
> itself in the case of catastrophic heatsink failure - it falling off,
> for instance.
>
> All of Intel's stuff prior, and all of AMD's stuff for some time after
> that could be convinced to cook themselves under the right
> circumstances.  Sometimes with as little effort as a stopped fan, or
> dust-clogged heatsink.
>
> --tim
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