Ok I have 100 degrees.....do I hear 110? :) Kimberly Secor Account Manager 480-368-4638 ext23 www.extremezone.com Extreme Internet is Ranked 2nd on The Business Journal's THE LIST for 2001 -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Klass [SMTP:sklass@andigilog.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:01 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: hello Ok, I can't resist.. My firewall has been sitting in my GARAGE for the past two summers and it gets well above 100 in that place. I've never replaced a component, and it's never went down due to heat, only my own stupid actions.. Ciao On Monday 02 July 2001 10:43, the famous Kurt Granroth wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2001 10:47 am, Jason wrote: > > My box locked up recently due to what I believe to be three things: > > > > 1. xlock keeping CPU usage high > > 2. dust on the fansink. a LOT of dust. > > 3. the homeowner being somewhat cheap, always sets the AC up to 76 (I > > like 74). I think he overtwisted it cause it was on 80 that day. > > FWIW, I doubt that #3 has anything to do with it. In my experience, CPUs > don't lock until they get near or above 60C (about 140F). In any event, > the difference between 76 and 80 is nothing to a CPU. > > Also FWIW, being cheap myself, I keep the temperature of my house at 78-80 > depending on the time of day. One of my linux servers has now been up > solidly for nearly 3 months with no flucuations in temperature that I can't > explain. -- Steven M. Klass Physical Design Engineering Manager Andigilog Inc. 7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100 Chandler, AZ 85226 Ph: 480-940-6200 ext. 18 Fax: 480-940-4255 sklass@andigilog.com http://www.andigilog.com ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss