Mersenne: prime95 fans slaying cpus

2002-01-15 Thread Alan Powell
Steve As far as laptops are concerned, while running Prime95 or fermat.c on my former 233MHz Acer laptop it used to overheat, sometimes so severely, that the bottom of the case was uncomfortable to the touch. The problem was completely resolved by using a PCMCIA Notebook cooling fan when

Mersenne: prime95 fans slaying cpus

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Elias
hi folks, thanks for all the responses regarding my Frodo-style cpu-slaying with prime95! Mary, it's great that your dell laptop throttles back the cpu when it overheats. that's smarter than my P4 desktop with Asus motherboard, and also smarter than the toshiba 'satellite' laptop. if you

Re: Mersenne: prime95 fans slaying cpus

2002-01-14 Thread Mary Conner
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Steve Elias wrote: Mary, it's great that your dell laptop throttles back the cpu when it overheats. that's smarter than my P4 desktop with Asus motherboard, and also smarter than the toshiba 'satellite' laptop. if you watch/compare the iteration time of prime95 that