Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:50:57 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Linux vs Windows temperature anomaly |
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:38:44AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:11 am, Herman Oosthuysen wrote: > > Linux is more 'busy' than windoze and I have heard of boxes frying when > > running Linux. The solution is to find a better motherboard > > manufacturer... > > That doesn't make sense. His post said the temperature was 20 degrees lower > when it failed.
It makes perfect sense. Components drawing power produce heat, which causes a temperature rise above ambient. Put simply, if a chip that fails at a case temperature of 50C and you have a 10C rise, it'll fail at 40C. If you have a 20C rise, it'll fail at 30C.
PS, the efficiency of heatsinks is measured in degC/W - how many degrees celcius the temperature rises for each watt of power dissipated. Double the dissipated power, double the temperature rise.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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