So I have a K6-233 at home, no overclocking nothing. And have it double
checking primes and the particular prime it is working on, it gets a
consistent .268s/iteration (w/ recache). I verified this over some 3-4
days...
Then I have a case fan break on me, so I go to the good ole MicroCenter on
the way home from work to pick up a new one. While there, I also pick up a
peltier cooler (because they had one).
I put in my new case fan and peltier cooler, start up my computer and head
off to work and all... no changes made to software or anything.
So, I come home and look at Prime95 and while before it was getting
.268s/iteration it is now getting .247s/iteration (consistently)... While
not seemingly much, that shaves some 37000 seconds off, or 10 hrs or so off
the full factoring time... (P=1843147 or something)
Which brings me to my odd observation... Could the cooler CPU temp speed up
operations by that much? Or am I going insane? I know that the physics of it
says it should be a *little* bit faster, but .02s/iteration faster?
Someone please explain this to me. :)
Jeremy
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