John R Pierce wrote: > I stopped running prime95 on my office dell as it causes the cpu fan > to run on high all the time, is noisy, and heats my small office.
You might want to try again with a throttle command. Add a line to <prime.ini> such as <Throttle=100> and see if that doesn't let Prime95 continue without turning your machine into a space heater. The number represents the number of microseconds Prime95 stays idle after each iteration. It took some experimentation, but I've found the right throttle rate for each system (with a variable speed fan) to prevent the fan from switching to its highest speed. This makes a big difference in laptops especially. Part of my motivation for running Prime95 (or mprime, now that I've mostly moved to Linux) is to hold the CPU temperature nearly constant despite changes in (non-prime) load. To do so I have to throttle back a bit, as other applications don't heat the CPU as much, leading to *reduced* power consumption and heat as the load increases. Bruce A Metcalf S00012 _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
