(05-04-2016, 03:24 AM)Ghost Wrote: Generally speaking
...fans are a bad idea when used alone. Getting a cheap heatsink is better than a fan. Using a large heatsink outperforms even the most annoying fan. Fans are only of some limited use when you do real heavy processing and when used together with an already applied heatsink.
Another very important thing for good thermal behaviour is to upgrade your OS image to the latest kernel. We improved the thermal and performance behaviour a lot especially on systems without or just a small heatsink a few weeks ago. If you don't update your kernel and use longsleep's corekeeper service you won't benefit from, your board is both slower and runs hotter.
Software/settings matters, heatsinks rule, fans are annoying. Everything well known and already documented: http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?t...10#pid3410
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