Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

[Brian Last-Name]

So my open question is: Do sudden temperature changes cause physical harm 
to CPUs, especially those that have only recently been turned on?

There are some very silly overclocking people who dip their motherboards 
into extremely cold nonconductive liquids.   In their efforts, some have 
lowered the processor from room temperature to roughly -100 in seconds 
without any damage.   I personally would like to see someone try cooling by 
wind chill, which would avoid the condensation problem and thermal shock 
problems, but that is a different ball of wax.

-Brian Peltzer
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Re: Mersenne: Top producers differents from number of accounts

[Steve]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:50:29PM +0200, michel claes wrote:
 Dear all,
 
 I have checked somme GIMPs statistics.
 I have found some strange things.
 
 http://mersenne.org/ips/topproducers.shtml repports 15898 Accounts.

But if you coun them there are 20,000+ (yes I've counted them).
It's something that's always puzzled me aswell.  

What I think is probably happenning is that it gives a place to every 
unique stage withing the process, ie one user with  2000 years worth of 
processing in 1st place would count as one, and 15 users all 
with 4.251 years worth of processing also counts as one.  This is 
all just my own guess, so don't take my word for it. 

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