I just felt I had to say, that I am very disturbed by this. The idea of my CPU simply shutting down when it overheats is a sensible idea. This is much more dodgy, espicaly as there doesn't seem to be any way of finding out, short of lots of benchmarks, if your processor is doing this... :-( It also raises problems for prime95, as it looks like running prime95 will reduce your PC's speed by half. I am going to recieve a pentium 4 shortly, and although I shall try to send it back for an AMD processor, if I can't I shall run tests with prime95. However if these figures are true then it won't be searching for primes :-( Chris -- Chris Jefferson, Girton College, Cambridge, CB3 0JG --------------------------------------------------- http://mrjeff.webjump.com Don't bother, it's not worth looking at. On Sat, 19 May 2001, Roger Gari�py wrote: > > I came about this information on degrading calculations after about 10 > minutes of usage. > > I think it can help explain stange behavour on your test of Prime 95 for P4. > > Don't be confuse by the web page title. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Roger Gari�py :-) <- :-( > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "validlab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 5:20 PM > Subject: numeric hazards of high performance CPU design > > > > > > http://www.inqst.com/articles/athlon4/0516main.htm > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers > _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
