Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 15:51:27 11/30/00
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Rain is a program that idles parts of the processor that are inoperative, thus stopping electrical processes -thus a less flow of electrons, thus less heath development :) Basically it is giving the processor the instruction to do nothing where nothing has to be cexecuted. It can come in handy for overclockers, I use it and it took some 5 degrees celcius from the processor temp with my PII 400@450 and somewhat less from my PIII 750@840 now. If you use a program like TaskInfo you'll see it takes the whole percentage of the processor that is idle, and releases it promptly when a program sends instructions to the processor. It doesn't slow the computer, but in some instances it can make the processor a bit unstable. There's another program by the same developer, Waterfall (shareware) which does a better job at stability. Yet I never ran into problems, it comes in handy and can be disabled. Most processors can cope quite good with overclocking; it's better to watch your motherboard, your videocard and your harddisk(s) The last two are prone to getting very hot. (If you are really in on cooling, use peltier elements. Beware, older slot 1 sockets are placed in a way that such an element doesn't fit in between the slot and the DIMM range. Or use liquid nitrogen. Or put out that PC and go drink a large.... cold..... beer.... sorry, have to go.....) Jeroen ;-}
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