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AMD k10 Modules – Temp Sensor
Jun 20th
They say the AMD k10 support will be rolled into the k8 modules. Whatever they do in new, upcoming package is independent of chipset support now. After some painful seaching to get the source code for the k10 chipset I found this blog post http://blog.morrigan.ch/?p=9. It is not an easy to find post but it does walk you through the compilation and installation of the modules. I will repost it here because my blog is very easy to find on the internet due to great Google indexing. First download the make file: Makefile Download the source: k10temp Make sure you have build-essential installed: sudo apt-get install build-essential Run: make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$(pwd) modules Copy to the appropriate system folder; cp k10temp.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/hwmon Load the module: sudo depmod && sudo modprobe k10temp Reboot. Installation gnome-sensors and you can view the temperature of your system as a convenient applet in your top panel!
Phenom 1 x4 9650 ASUS M3A78-T Overclocking
Jun 20th
The Phenom chips have frequency scaling properties. The only reason to use this feature is to manage temperatures, if the frequency is lower the processor will consume less power and therefore run cooler. My computer with Thermaltake water cooling would run at 28C – 32C with the frequency scaling option enabled in the BIOS (AMD Cool’n Quiet). I currently have the BIOS configured with this feature off. The FSB is scaled to 215 with the multiplyer at 11.5. The processor voltage range is 1.15 – 1.25 and I have gold series OCZ 1066 DDR2 ram. The voltage for these chips are 2.1, and the timing is 5-6-6-18. Enable 2T and ganged mode. I cannot get the chips to operate at 1066, the computer wont post. No worries ram speed is not a major player in the speed of application launching. The FSB play a greater role. Currently the RAM is operating at 900 Mhz, and the processor is operating at 2.54 Ghz. The temperature of the computer is consistently 30C – 32C even under load.
Mount Temp Direcories as Devices
Aug 29th
Mounting your temp directories as devices will store the data in your computers ram instead of on the filesystem. This will reduce the writes made to your storage device, which is benificial for flash based systems. You can achieve this by adding various directories to your fstab (/etc/fstab) configuration file: tmpfs     /var/log/apt   tmpfs       defaults          0   0 tmpfs     /var/log       tmpfs       defaults          0   0 tmpfs     /tmp           tmpfs       defaults          0   0 tmpfs     /var/tmp       tmpfs       defaults          0   0
