Crazy thought here, but what if prime95 only ran at x% speed? For example, put some hlts in there and see how that affects the CPU temp. I think for those of us that run Prime95 on laptops find it unnerving when the fans are running full blast all the time, and it would be cool to have a cooler running prime95 rather than no prime95 at all.
Thinking about it, you could probably keep the temp down to around normal idle temp... -Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick Craig-Wood Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Elias Subject: Re: Mersenne: slaying cpus with prime95 On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:45:21PM -0500, Steve Elias wrote: > here are some instances where i have damaged computers > by (capriciously?) running prime95! > > 1 - i just got my wife's toshiba laptop back from toshiba warranty > service. running prime95 for ~6 months on it caused the fan to die, > and then the laptop would overheat & shutdown even without prime95 > running. apparently the heat caused lots of disk badblocks too. Mmm, yes the fan on my laptop (Dell 38000) sounds like someone dumped a load of grit in it - not good :-( I stopped running prime95 (mprime actually) on it for that reason. -- Nick Craig-Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
