Hee, hee, hee.. that sounds like a real undertaking to me :-) I guess with the hardware monitoring and protection the board itself provides (throttling cpu speeds) and such, I really shouldn't worry too much about temps. The reason I sent the Tyan board back was due to some overvoltage problems of cpu core voltage, and didn't want to wipe out a pair of Xeon cpu's. That is one area I really would like to monitor, but seeing what it shows now of 4.08 volts does not leave me much faith in things. Its just too much of a job to try to swag all the components on the mobo, as chip caps and resistors don't lend themselves to scrutiny by old eyes, even with a magnifier! Perhaps one day someone will get things figured out, but until then, I can take the readings with a grain of salt and watch for drastic changes from the initial.. that would be more useful probably in the long run
Thanks MaZe
Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
The problem is that sometimes the same chips are used but different valued parts (resistors, etc.) are attached to the motherboard. So only the motherboard manufacturer has any real idea about the proper way to scale the value you can read from the chip to a concrete temperature or voltage. In many cases the default lm_sensors values work OK, but for some oddball motherboards with non-standard values (even though using standard chips!) there's nothing you can really do. You can either experiment or try to take a close look at the motherboard and figure out what actual elements are used (if that is even visible) - not the chips but the tiny extra elements like resistors and/or condensators... Of course you could also theoretically reverse engineer the windows drivers...
Cheers, MaZe.
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