Opteron temperature on linux
I’ve been looking around today on how to find the temperature of my new Opteron processor. I’m using that as a webserver and from what I learned on the internet that it can be over-clocked to 2.5GHz no troubles, and I read in other places up to 3GHz. The motherboard is one big factor in play, and also the temperature of the CPU. As I understand, it should always be around 32 Celcius.
Today I found this amazing tool called gkrellm, which I don’t know what it stands for. However, it has a very nicely designed GUI that shows that loads on every core as well as the CPU temperature. I was able to figure out that I’m running the CPU way below 32C, it was at 22C i.e. I had 10 more degrees to go.
One of the things I also learned while researching over clocking is that a big factor is the load on the CPU. If someone is playing games, this would actually mean that the CPU is heavily loaded. At around 80,000 page views a day the dual core Opteron did not pass 4% while monitoring it using top, and so there is still a big room to go - although it seems like I really don’t need it 
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