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Originally Posted by ondoho
Thank you for your interest.
The phrasing is really unclear there - the screenshot does not seem to relate to the text.
Also it says "it peaks around 66 degrees C", which I understand to mean that it goes up to 66 d C, and stays there, under load.
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I believe that's what they're saying. But now I'm unsure if they mean 66* C as reported, or a delta of 66* C over ambient (business_kid got me thinking of that - some reviewers do that).
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$ stress -c 8 -i 4 -m 2 --vm-bytes 128M -t 300
(that's 5 minutes with mostly CPU stress, some MEM and I/O too)
After a while it settles around
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coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +75.0°C (crit = +125.0°C)
Core 1: +82.0°C (crit = +125.0°C)
Much better than without the fan.
The machine is now in an open cupboard (not ideal but OK airflow), with a fan on top of the CPU.
Yours is running cooler I guess?
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Unfortunately my Atom box with pfsense doesn't read its temperature back accurately - it reports 10* C in the OS. I can gurantee you it is not running at 10* C (either its reading the sensor wrong, or its inaccurate below some threshold - I admittedly haven't bothered to troubleshoot it further). The other one isn't in bootable condition currently, but I can see if I have time to start it up and see what it does at least to its BIOS.
I can't imagine 82* C under load is going to be a problem though - if it's spec'd to 125* C you're still well under the limit, and that isn't 24x7 unless you're always loading this thing up, but if that's the case I might consider a faster CPU just from a performance perspective (from my own rough testing, an i5-4690S will have similar idle/low-level-workload #s to the Atom 330, but the 4690S is dramatically faster, even at idle).
