Len Brown pisze:

What bad things happen if you leave the critical trip point at 256?
Do you find that you can drive the temperature over 105 and
the system fails to shut down?

-Len

It isn't problem in this case (nx6310). But on hp nc nc6220 first trip
point is at 30 *C, so fan is usually on (noise, power consumption).

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