-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote: > M Harris wrote: >> On Thursday 24 May 2007 17:08, James Knott wrote: >> >>> Maybe you should try one of those "infinite binary loops", that were so >>> popular a few years back. They were supposedly able to trash a CPU! ;-) >>> >> ... I've never actually been able to ruin a cpu that was properly >> sinked and >> vented... what the PI routine does not do is IO, not till its done anyway. >> But what it does do if scale is set high enough is to force the memory >> requirements off chip... so it exercises not just the ALU, but the bus logic >> as well... and it keeps those flops toggling long and fast which in turn >> draws lots of current which in turn creates lots of heat. Most of the time >> the processor in a linux machine is pretty much sitting there idle... that >> has always amazed me also.... >> >> >> >> >> > I guess you missed the ";-)". That "infinite binary loop" was a bit of > nonsense, that was going around a few years back. >
This reminds me... Some a years ago I came across I link where some guys overclocked a CPU and fried an egg on it while playing Doom. But hopefully this is not what is required here :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVpY9asN0sSnLmgIRAiA2AJ9QKtfw/RF7B3o8kAM1/0bl2QM0DACdE+IK MdF/7hvKYIvULs47sJ6uyxk= =c4Z5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
