For those who were following and assisting the EMERGENCY build problem.

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/14 Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de>:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>> I have booted the computer and left it running for more than half an
>> hour.  Although the heat sink fan is still not spinning, the computer is
>> running quiet; nothing seems to be heating up.  I put my finger on cool
>> components.
>>
>> My new monitor should be here tomorrow so I can get the bios set up and
>> new OS hopefully installed.  So far it appears the build is just fine.
>> Thanks again to all who helped.
>>
>> Steven
>>
> Steven,
>
> I am glad that it is running so nicely and on low temperature, now.
>
> Maybe you are operating to many fans within your case, so that the cpu
> cooler gets a fair amount of cool air, so that the CPU fan does not need
> to spin?
>
> Anyway, I would recommend you to install lmsensors and ksensors, since
> this will probably (i.e. if your chipset is supported by lmsensors)
> allow you to monitor your temperatures from within the running KDE session.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Eberhard
>

I discovered when i upgraded my CPU that lmsensors don't support
monitoring CPU temperature on AMD phenom processors yet.

/ Jonas