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Subject: Re: Keeping AMD Processors Cool running Chess Programs?

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 00:56:12 01/21/03

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On January 20, 2003 at 18:43:42, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On January 20, 2003 at 18:09:47, George Wilson wrote:
>
>>How do I know if my xp2000 processor is running Cool or not? I went into the
>>bios and it said my processor was running at 127 degress is this real hot? Is
>>there some comparison chart i can go by?  I notice my temperature usually goes
>>up after i play some games with Fritz.  Just installed a Thermal Fan that cost
>>about 20 bucks, so far i haven't been getting the system crashes that I was
>>previously getting, but it still seems that 127 degress is hot. I just bought
>>this brand new amd elite motherboard and processor, so i can't see how it can be
>>a bad processor. I guess i will wait until i get another crash to complain, so
>>far i have been running fritz constantly for three hours with no crashes.
>
>Throw water on it, that will fix your problem!

Water helps a lot actually, just not DIRECTLY on your computer. :) With liquid
cooling my cpu overclocked is 113.587 watts (66% hotter than an XP 2700+).. even
so the cpu temp at full load is less than 25C (77F). :)



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