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
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