2010 Hotter? or My System? or No Problem?

[T6]

that brand and asrock has proven(to me at least) to be not reliable after 3 years of use, specially asrock with intel cpus

both have improved drastically the quality lately but still i prefer a cheap asus, msi or gigabyte over other brands, ecs has became a very used brand but still i prefer those brands

the cost sometimes can be prohibitive but when this situations happens, a few dollars can save the day sometimes

[Ray2047]

I have an old Intel 1200 computer I picked up for free that works and the second computer I built, an Athlon 800, so while I won't intentionally abuse are neglect my main computer I won't spend serious money on it while it works.

[atomic]

I've noticed one hot issue too. My pclos 2010 KDE is much 'hotter' than pclos 2010 Gnome. Both were fresh installed and gnome installation was a way cooler for my laptop cpu, than it was kde. CPU fan is much louder on KDE. Fglrx driver is corectly installed. No desktop efects are enabled. Frequency scaling is on. On idle cpu usage is always about 3-10% (on gnome was 0-2%)? Why is that so?

[T6]

you posted a image of the apps running but we are talking about sensor reports and in your case is not the same

compare gnome to kde is compare apples to oranges, each one is a different thing and has different ways o do things

about the fans, you can verify the speed with some apps that exist on linux, gkrelm between others

there is some widgets in kde4 that can show those values