[ltp] Hot GPU

[D. Sen]

Its a W500. Perhaps I will try fglrx. Apart from the GPU temp, its
running beautifully though - acpi suspend and all...- but I am afraid
its going to burn up soon.

Adrian Filip wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:54 AM, D. Sen <dsen@ieee.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The GPU temperature seems to always be in the 70 to 80 Celsius range. I
>> am using the 'ati' driver (not the proprietary fglrx driver). This seems
>> overly high to me. Am I wrong?
>>
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> 
> What Thinkpad do you have? I have a T60p running Fedora Core 12 and
> I have the same issue using open source drivers.
> It went close to 90C when I was watching a live stream. I know that T60p
> are having issue with the cooling system.