AMD Phenom X4 9750 hit 124 degrees Celsius!
Saturday, August 15th, 2009Yeap, 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.