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

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Sun Jan 11 19:41:55 EST 2004


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


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