[ltp] Re: _very_ high temperatures

[Johannes Boy]

I've got a z61p with core duo 2ghz (same as Anthonys).
When I nail down the CPUs with cpufreq_powersave, the temperatures
stay at around 60=B0C, even when used heavily.
As soon as I put the performance governor into play and add some
workload, they jump up to 88-90=B0C within seconds. The GPU even jumps
to 100=B0C with a little load on it.
When I watch a movie on my notebook, I can use it to cook some eggs on
the underside afterwards :(

It might be interesting to know if this also happens under Windows
(assuming Windows knows how to handle the stuff properly).
If the temperatures go up that high, it may be normal. If not,
something is wrong with the kernel I guess.
Soo, any Windows users out there who could report about this?

On 1/11/07, Karel Podvolecky <kapo@ok.cvut.cz> wrote:
>
>
> Anthony J Moulen napsal(a):
> > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:44, Jiang Qian wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:47PM +0100, Karel Podvolecky wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>  first of all, sorry for my bad English :-).
> >>>  I have serious troubles with temperatures on my T60 (2007-F4G). When=
 I
> >>> did last week system update in Gentoo and went out. When I came back,
> >>> the /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal says:
> >>> cpu 110 C
> >>> gpu 110 C
> >>> and my TP was as hot as a chicken on a grill. Yestereday, my TP had a
> >>> hard lock, again it was too hot.
> >>>
> >>> In all cases, fan was running at ~3800RPM. I never saw running it ove=
r
> >>> 4000RPM. I think, my TP is unable to cool down enough. What can I do?=
 I
> >>> cannot use all power of core duo, when I have to take care of
> >>> temperature. It has normally temperatures over 90 C when one core is
> >>> under load.
> >>>
> >>> My core duo has 1.83GHz max. I cannot imagine, how can *p models with
> >>> core duo at 2.13GHz cool down itself :-/. weird...
> >>>
> >> I don't have a T60, but you seriously need to call the technical suppo=
rt
> >> of IBM/Lenovo. I'm pretty sure this is not normal at all and you have =
a
> >> problematic thinkpad. If it is not under warranty, you may want to che=
ck
> >> if the thermal gel is properly applied.
> >> Jiang
> >>
> > This is definitely not right, I have a Z61M which uses the same chip
> > essentially (but mine is a 2ghz) and I know a couple of people with T60=
P
> > units with the 1.83 chip and none of us have this problem.  Check you C=
PU
> > usage.  Mine will get warm when at high CPU usage but still not that ho=
t.  I
> > don't know which number represents the CPU versus the GPU on the termar=
tures
> > list but nonthing in mine is over 60.  I run Gentoo 2006.1 with KDE, an=
d
> > several of the people I work with have T60Ps  with gentoo on them and n=
one of
> > them are complaining about heat issues.
> >
> > What you didn't include is which kernel you are using on Gentoo.
> >
> Of course, I forgot.
> gentoo 2006.1
> Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r2
> fglrx 8.32.5
> GPU at minimal frequencies (cca 120MHz gpu+ram)
>
> It hapens usually, when both cores are under heavy load (gcc 4.1.1
> compiling c++ apps (qt apps))
>
> and I have this TP for cca 7 months.
>
> K.P.
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