Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:04:07 11/30/00
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On November 30, 2000 at 17:59:38, Chessfun wrote: >On November 30, 2000 at 17:45:29, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>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 > >I have had rain about a year. I was using it while fooling around >with overclocking of my Cel 433's. It hardly uses any cpu amount >though why not just check your cpu temp to see even if you need it >running. Unless your cpu is overclocked you won't need it. > >Sarah. Well, Sarah, I do not overclock my CPU, but I am that kind of paranoid that keeps an umbrella at hand and high and heavy rubber boots in mid summer, just in case... Fernando
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