Re:Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
by rwmj on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:47AM
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AMD gave us a dual socket test system (back in the Phenom days) which started failing after a couple of years of very heavy use for builds, CI, etc. After much head scratching I eventually found that the thermal paste had dried out, and simply reattaching the CPU fans with new paste fixed the system and it lived for quite a few more years after that.
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Re:Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
by mcv on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:44AM
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That is excellent advice. I've had machines that started out pretty quiet but got noisier as they got older. I figured it was gunk accumulating on the fans or other parts, but I guess checking the paste is a good idea too.