On Tuesday 17 February 2004 15:43, Nano Nano wrote: > Now I can turn the fan down to "quite quiet" (3000 RPMs) and compile hte > kernel at 46C (before it was 55C). So I can sleep peacefully.
I don't know what Pentium4 chips are rated to run at, but I think you might be over paranoid about the temperature. The P4 does have thermal throttling built in, so even if a power hungry process does fire itself up misteriuosly while you're dead to the world, the cpu won't fry. As a loose and almost irrelevant comparison, my AthlonXP 1800+ (Palomino core) runs at around 55 centigrade at idle. Something like setiathome bumps this to between 60 and 70 degrees, depending on the room temperature, and it runs perfectly stable: 15:20:06 up 85 days, 16 min. Heatsink/fan is not quite one of the hardcore overclocker models, but it sounds about like a vacuum cleaner with the box open, so I can relate. So my guess is you can safely leave it with the fan turning slowly and it'll survive the odd spike. One thing I do when I have have to leave the computer on while I sleep, is to put a pillow on top of the case - it absorbs a lot of sound. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
