AMD Phenom X4 9750 hit 124 degrees Celsius!
Yeap, that’s right.
One of my 1U rackmount servers contained the above chip, and is running Ubuntu Linux with lm-sensors. Sure lm-sensors isn’t that accurate (all the engineering talk about tjunction temperature etc etc), but it’s the only reading I could get at that point in time (using “watch sensors” command) and I saw it hit 124 degrees Celsius before my screen froze. I guess the AMD CPU shut itself down at that specific moment.
Some hardware issues then caused me to man my panic stations, thinking it was a fried chip and/or board and/or power supply etc. Thankfully, it wasn’t burnt! Talk about building confidence in the chipmaker. They’re finally getting close to the only thing I like about Intel - throttling the chips to continue operations albeit at a lower performance.
Now, time to fix all the other niggling problems about the server once and for all.