Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-12 Thread Brian Last-Name
So my open question is: Do sudden temperature changes cause physical harm to CPUs, especially those that have only recently been turned on? There are some very silly overclocking people who dip their motherboards into extremely cold nonconductive liquids. In their efforts, some have

Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-11 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 10 Apr 2001, at 20:50, Shane Amy Sanford wrote: So my open question is: Do sudden temperature changes cause physical harm to CPUs, especially those that have only recently been turned on? Yes it does but this depends on your processor cooling methods to a certain extent. It's

Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-11 Thread Gareth Randall
Further, There might be two types of "movement" fracture damage occuring: 1. Movement between the substrate and the processor casing. This would be reduced if the thermal conductivity between these two parts is good, in which case both will expand together, rather than the substrate rapidly

Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-10 Thread Gareth Randall
Dear All, I've been thinking about the temperature fluctuations in a processor, and recalled the large and rapid changes in processor temperatures that some list members have reported when the floating point unit is activated. So my open question is: Do sudden temperature changes cause

Re: Mersenne: Thermal shock in CPUs.

2001-04-10 Thread Shane Amy Sanford
So my open question is: Do sudden temperature changes cause physical harm to CPUs, especially those that have only recently been turned on? Yes it does but this depends on your processor cooling methods to a certain extent. It's generally accepted that sudden temp changes will slowly