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Published in 2016-7-12 06:00:05 from mobile | Show all floors
Cambiar a españolCerrar pantalla completa I realized that if reproduzo a video , my opipc temperature is around 60 degrees, but if I do not reproduce anything , rises above 70. How could I help it? It is totally meaningless . I have the latest modified version to run CEC

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Published in 2016-7-12 06:01:52 from mobile | Show all floors
I realized that if I reproduce a video , my opipc temperature is around 60 degrees, but if I do not reproduce anything , rises above 70. How could I help it? It is totally meaningless . I have the latest modified version to run CEC

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Published in 2016-7-12 06:26:45 | Show all floors
hav replied at 2016-7-11 23:01
I realized that if I reproduce a video , my opipc temperature is around 60 degrees, but if I do not  ...

Depends. During video playback GPU is almost unused, especially if you don't have debug info or subtitles turned on. It is known to cause additional heat. In fact, it is used in lima tester program to make additional stress on SoC to test for overheating. BTW, what is your ambient temperature?

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Published in 2016-7-12 07:28:10 from mobile | Show all floors
jernej replied at 2016-7-12 06:26
Depends. During video playback GPU is almost unused, especially if you don't have debug info or su ...

my room temperature is 35-40 degrees Celsius . but the temperature is higher when opipc does absolutely nothing . It is illogical that is greater than when other works (plays videos) .

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Published in 2016-7-12 13:02:14 | Show all floors
hav replied at 2016-7-12 00:28
my room temperature is 35-40 degrees Celsius . but the temperature is higher when opipc does absol ...

well, then that temperature is ok. As I said, GPU utilization plays a big role here.

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Published in 2016-7-12 15:34:59 | Show all floors
Edited by giaur500 at 2016-7-12 15:41

Actually I can't make it cooler. I mounted big heatsink (taken from PC motherboard). Still temperature exceedes 80 °C. The only difference it takes a bit longer time to reach almost 90 °C. It overheats not while watching movies, but rather while listening music, I guess cpu usage is higher in that case. I removed top cover from case but it didn't help too much. Room temperature is ~25 °C
There is no any overheat when running Debian (not armbian, official debian image), but performance seems to be reduced.

Overall - I guess, on highest cpu usage (100% for all cores) I would burn hardware. Note that temperature reaches 90 °C and cpu usage is not higher than 25%. What will happen on 100%? Will we see some smoke? I suggest to perform some stress test (is there any for openelec?). Temperatures like this are dangerous

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Published in 2016-7-13 20:46:07 | Show all floors
I continued testing temperature and I discovered something very strange . If I turn and leave opipc on the main screen without touching anything , after a few minutes the temperature rises above 70 degrees . But if I turn and I will opipc system / Settings / System Info / Hardware and remain there, the temperature never exceeds 60 degrees

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Published in 2016-7-13 23:39:18 | Show all floors
hav replied at 2016-7-13 13:46
I continued testing temperature and I discovered something very strange . If I turn and leave opipc  ...

This one is simple. Disable RSS feed and it won't matter anymore. For some reason, scrolling text seems to be the culprint. Same can be observed if you open your folder with, for example, video files with very long names and you point to some such file. I still suspect GPU here.

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Published in 2016-7-14 00:05:25 from mobile | Show all floors
How I disable RSS ?

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Published in 2016-7-14 00:09:48 from mobile | Show all floors
The RSS ticker can be toggled on or off by going to Settings -> Appearance -> Skin -> Show one can also change
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