system temps

[wezhira]

ive been having issues with my system temps i'm running an athlon 3000 ( i know its old but it serves the purpose) any way from xp i installed speedfan and from linux opensuse 11 i use an app called gkrellm . Any how what i noticed was my temps were high alwys in the 50s region sometimes 60 max 64 now the most i really do is convert videos so i cleaned my system put an extra fan brought the temps down to 30s 40s max 55 this is using speedfan in windows .
Now i went back to opensuse m from gkrellm my temps are always between 50 55 this is kde3.x without doing much surfing internet listening too music
i went kde4.1 i noticed the temps are much lower nearly the same as the temps in windows all this while doing exactly the same stuff as kde3.5 . so is it just me or is kde 3.x more of a resource hog than 4.1

 

[MyWorld]

KDE 4 is "said" to be less resource intensive than KDE 3, how true that is I do not know.

Is lmsensors registering the correct sensors? Gkrellm is only a general system monitor that uses lmsensors as base to monitor temps. Do the following as root and check to see if the correct chipsets are being monitored:

sensors-detect

This will generate a /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors file with relevant chipset information. Follow the file and probe all the modules it lists. Do not worry if the coretemp module doesn't want to load, it is a more advanced monitoring module, but still experimental in many distro kernels, you can safely remove it from the configuration if it doesn't want to load.

After this:

sensors

Compare this with the gkrellm output to see if the correct sensors are being detected.
I remember one of my more advanced mobos having a sensor on almost every single chip on the board.

If the temps are still high, install another extra fan!

 

[wezhira]

thanx i get the same temps as with gkrellm my temps are just high in kde3.5.x but windows and kde4 they are just fine so i think its a kde3.5 x thing