Intel Atom n450 idle is always above 50°c in all Operating Systems, I want to know how much your CPU idle Temperature on different CPUs on other OS/distros.
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For me, idle is mostly around ~45C, where idle = several apps running in the background (not truly doing nothing).
You can see the spike to 60C when i launched and opened CoolerControl for the visualization. This is an AMD and this particular one typically “runs hot” and I don’t have a custom AIO or water-cooling, just a couple fans in the case.
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This is my idle temp for a Raspberry Pi 5 with an active cooler (has a bit of a heatsink with it) in an official Pi case (plastic):
It’s not low, but it’s meant to run fine below about 85C. I adjusted the fan control so that it doesn’t kick in below 70C. In practice, it doesn’t kick in unless I start loading heavy web-pages or playing hi-def videos.
Aside from that, I live in pure silent bliss. No longer can I hear ANY computer sounds when just browsing and light general computing.
The silence would be complete and temps would be much lower if I could make use of the FLIRC case I own, however it impedes the Wi-Fi I rely on, sadly.
Using an active cooler inside the official case is not a combination that had even occurred to the Raspberry Pi folk, but if it’s quieter and cooler than the case fan that has to come out to make enough space, why not?
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Ubuntu-MATE 24.04 LTS: Idle temperatures on my main rig (AMD Ryzen 5 3600)
Autohide sidepanel with mate-panel-sensors
Note: GPU fan is actually stopped. What you see is the last value when it was spinning.
(Fan will kick in at 50°C and stop at 40°C )
EDIT: more info about the GPU fanspeed controller
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This is where I like using the btm tool:
After 15 mins:
Not idle but only 5 apps open Nothing heavy, so pretty idle.
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I’m searching some info about how to improve display remote servers from lm-sensor, sensors, nvidia-smi and hddtemp and psensor-server, and after use remote control for heattubes connection, heat exchange, and cooling systems.
Nearly I have to replace/repair a lot of heat dissipation modules, because past of time only maintain conduction circuit(gold,cooper, aluminum) for heat. Fluids inside heat-tubes are in progressive degradation due to high press/temperature working conditions, and needs to replace, or clean/substitute with methanol new fluid.
Air-Cooling derived to conduction/change-state dissipation heat is one of projects for future, distant future. A standard heat dissipation bus for recycle heat to other applications.
This is a laptop system,ambient temperature 27ºC, servers runs near 85ºC for degraded heat dissipation, and 53ºC-61ºC for effective heat tube dissipation.
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Yea, no AC here, too expensize.
Funny as I was typing this my wife turned the floor fan towards me. lol
The ambient temperature this morning is also about 27°C and will be about 30°C later today. I know that my home lab servers the fans really spin up a lot more from around July to September. So much so that I got rid of the rack fans as they were dying and setup more passive cooling.
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