On 12/1/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I see you have a P4. Could the heat sink have fallen off/not been > >> mounted properly? Supposedly, the P4 will slow itself down when it > >> overheats. IF the heat sink were not on at all (or a tiny air gap > >> existed), the thing would probably reach critical temp within a couple > >> seconds of power-on, and slow to an absolute crawl. The kernel is > >> loaded by the BIOS, so until the kernel was completely loaded. At that > >> point, OpenBSD would be halting the processor when it was idle, and it > >> would probably stay cool enough to keep running at respectable speed.
just for the record, p4's without heatsinks aren't that slow. obviously much slower than normal, but they are functional. you may not even notice.
