Nate> my p3-800 still runs at 50C(AFAIK when its idle, as i can't Nate> query the cpu from linux yet lm_sensors doesn't support the Nate> chip..so 50C is from the bios)
I labored under the same misconception until Frodo (author of lmsensors) corrected me. The CPU is very far from idle when you're in the BIOS: in fact it is in a tight loop waiting for keyboard input. The reading you get from BIOS is likely _higher_ than one you will/would get from lmsensors on a normally loaded Linux system. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
