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Subject: Re: curiosity killed the cat... What's this:

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:54:51 03/01/03

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On March 01, 2003 at 12:00:04, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On March 01, 2003 at 09:55:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 01, 2003 at 03:14:38, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>On March 01, 2003 at 03:10:15, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Dr. Hyatt's FTP site:
>>>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/warmup.zip
>>>
>>>It was some program Eugene had which was supposed to cause CPUs to heat up as
>>>much as possible.  It didn't quite live up to expectations - Prime95 resulted in
>>>a hotter processor and had much faster failure detection.
>>
>>
>>It wasn't supposed to heat up "the cpu".  But a "specific part of the CPU".
>>
>>As per Eugene's comments.
>
>Whatever.  It still didn't perform as advertised.


Sure it did.  He _specifically_ said that it will "toast" one part of the
CPU.  It does that.  Total core heat dissipation was not what he was looking
at.  Just a single hot-spot.

That is _exactly_ what he claimed and no more...



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