Inuvik Restored to Service

     Innuvik is back in service.  I fixed the cable connector by epoxying the 4-pin to the 20-pin effectively making it a 24 pin connector so the latch on the 20 pin section holds all in.  I no longer get intermittent power when I move the cable around.

     I discovered that about a penny sized area of air gap between the CPU heat spreader and the cooler had developed and so regooped the whole thing but this time I did not have the higher quality compound.  Still at 4.8 Ghz under the most extreme CPU torture test I have it maxed at 82C and averaged about 70C, with the better compound it will max at about 62C when there are no gaps, but this is adequate.

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +33.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 0: +30.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 1: +29.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 2: +29.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 3: +31.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 4: +33.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 8: +30.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 9: +31.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 10: +28.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 11: +31.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 16: +31.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 17: +30.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 18: +31.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 19: +30.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 20: +32.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 24: +31.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 25: +30.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 26: +29.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)
Core 27: +30.0°C (high = +76.0°C, crit = +86.0°C)

     This is what temps are looking like now, you notice there is only a 4C spread between the hottest and coolest cores, before that spread was 20C.

     So I would like to have the additional overhead but this should suffice for now.  I have a new power supply on order as this one is a little doggy and sags under load more than I would like.  The current supply is a 1000 watt Gigabyte supply, the replacement is a Phanteks 1200 watt which is a rebranded Seasonic, it’s has a 12-year warranty so at least financially if it dies it will be someone else’s problem.

     So I don’t know if this is going to fix the stability issues or not, but I did run it with the most extreme CPU torture test software I have at 4.8 Ghz all cores two threads per core for an hour before I took it back to the co-lo and no CPU errors.

     So back in service are roundcube.eskimo.com, friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com, and yacy.eskimo.com and with all these running full tilt CPU is still about 97% idle and I’m working on some additional new services.