Server Fubar'ed - Ideas welcomed

A. Khattri ajai
Thu Jun 9 16:25:05 PDT 2005


On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Any age, TMK. I don't think any of the Athlons implemented thermal
> protection like the P4. The newer P4s supposedly even automatically
> downclock when overheating as a form of crude thermal regulation.
>
> That said, the Athlons tolerated overheating better and could survive
> higher temperatures.

Its possible some board manufacturers have some thermal circuitry that
shuts the whole machine down. Ive seen it happen on one of our dual-Athlon
servers - that one had a Tyan mobo in it.

We're still at 1.6GHz...

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