Re: Mersenne: Security of prime95 + electricity costs.

[Nathan Russell]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:59:56 -0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote:

>On 11 Mar 2001, at 8:59, Martijn wrote:
>
(BIG snip)
>> and would the temperature of an idle
>> system not be lower than that of a system running mprime/prime95
>
>Yes, but you have to engineer the cooling to cope with the worst 
>possible case. However many laptops appear to turn on an extra 
>cooling fan almost immediately a program which makes use of the FPU 
>starts.

My desktop does the same - the sound changes noticably when a
distributed computing program is running.  

Nathan Russell
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