On Monday 07 March 2005 13:34, you wrote: > I know these questions are unanswerable,
Probably they are answerable! > but I have a poorly performing > computer and would appreciate some troubleshooting suggestions. I have > several Dell Optiplex boxes running 34M exponents and get iteration > times anywhere from .059 to .072. These are all 3GHz+ CPU's, 1GB RAM. Seems reasonable? > > There is one outlier that is getting .122 iteration times. It has a > 3.00 GHz P4 CPU. I have looked at the task list and Prime95 is getting > 98% of the cycles. I have run adware and spyware removers. After a > reboot, I will sometimes see a couple of iteration times of .076 or so, > but it always goes back to >.12 quickly and I do not see these shorter > iteration times with every reboot. Possibly ventilation failure causing CPU throttling, possibly BIOS setting causing CPU throttling instead of turning on extra cooling fan. > > This seems slow to me. Any thoughts of what this could be due to, > especially if task list is showing me P95 with all the CPU cycles? Yeah, you're getting all the cycles, but something is slowing the clock down! Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
