[ltp] Graphic Card temperature

[gervin23]

i too am a t60p owner and wonder about gpu heat. my powerstate is 3 and 
averages about 74C (165F) sitting idle. that seems awefully hot to me.

Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have an IBM Thinkpad T60, using Debian, fglrx 8.28.8 (yes, I have seen
> that thre is one newer), xorg 7.1.0.
> 
> Checking in /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal, I see that the fourth number is
> 65-66, being executed aticonfig --set-powerstate=1 long time ago
> (hours).
> 
> I am not expert about this topic, but is this temp normal? fan is
> working in low speed, I am not using any program to control the fan
> speed (as I expect that should be controlled by hardware itself!). I
> have read in Thinkwiki that sometimes fan is turned on because GPU and
> not because CPU	(my CPU is at 48ºC, low speed mode).
> 
> So the questions are:
> -65ºC is usual for T60, fglrx and low voltage?
> -Anyway to have colder GPU?
> -Do I really need a software program (I know that there is lot of
> systems available) to switch off the fan? I don't need to switch off it,
> I guess that if is switched on is for some reason (I have also read
> something about Always On Bug, my Thinkpad T60 has been bought last
> August...)
> 
> Thank you very much!
>