Corridor 9

I spent the better part of the day tweaking Gentoo linux on my laptop. I have wanted to include some enhancements for quite some time now, but just haven’t gotten around to it. I was worried about the fan states (the speeds that both the CPU and Video fans run depending on thermal load), and never really liked the fact that the CPU fan wouldn’t run at max speed unless the CPU temp was between 75° - 80° C. Its my understanding that the die temperature (the temp at which the processor starts overheating) is 100° C, but I would like to keep the temp well below that. I believe that the processors internal thermal control circuit (TCC) will kick in as the CPU temperature approaches maximum die temperature (135° C). However, because I have altered the CPU and Video fan speeds using a software application, I am not sure that the system hardware will override the application if the CPU temp approached 100° C. Under normal operating parameters, this wouldn’t be a concern as the system itself regulates fan speeds in correlation to temperature . However, if the software application happens to crash for some reason, I’m pretty sure the fans will not operate correctly. This would be very bad!

I’ll have to look into this some more tonight before committing to the changes I’ve made.