Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

[R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinbird@charter.net> wrote:
> What are the Dell system specs?
>
> ( Heatsink on a CPU? .... How old is this system ? )
>

Dell Precision T7600, two 16 thread Xeons, 192GB of RAM, two Quadro
cards and a Tesla card.

The system is a few years old at this point. Old enough that the
thermal compound could have hardened, which is why I replaced it.

> On 04/19/2018 08:22 PM, R0b0t1 wrote:
>> I was compiling Gentoo, as is custom, but found my old new server to
>> be thermal cycling wildly. The fans will turn on full blast and
>> machine check errors will be generated if I use approximately more
>> than one third to half of the cores. The cores then throttle
>> themselves, only to immediately overheat once the throttle lifts. This
>> seems to persist on Windows, though Windows seems to be much more
>> conservative in its CPU usage, and triggers MCEs less.
>>
>> Any suggestions? I repasted the CPU and heatsink interface, and the
>> machine is not loaded with dust. It was hardly ever used. The MCEs
>> seem to be a "normal" part of operation, though less normal on
>> Windows.
>>
>> Is there a way to at least mimic the conservative CPU usage that
>> Windows exhibits?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>      R0b0t1
>>
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