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Subject: Re: Cooling Device and CPU Speed

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 14:45:29 11/30/00

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On November 30, 2000 at 17:41:02, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote:

>On November 30, 2000 at 17:24:21, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Since a year or more I have been using a cooling device called "Rain". In a way
>>or another it impedes an overheating of the cpu in certain conditions, but
>>suddenly I have wondered if this thing does not cause some lose of speed and so
>>I am losing some extra nodes per second in every one of my programs. Anyone
>>knows if such thing happens or this is just one of my periodic paranoid runs?
>>
>>Fernando
>
>If it is a mechanical device connected to the outside of the processor,
>I don't think it would do any harm.
>If you are using it in order to overclock your system, that could
>be risky.
>If you are NOT using it to overclock, then it probably has no effect
>on speed.


Hermano:
Of course is a software device. Do you think that I could believe that a sort of
external fan or whatever - maybe a block of ice- could affect the logic
operations of an electronic piece of equipment?
Brother, Ain't so dumb..  :-)
Saludos a su hermosa novia
Fernando




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